SJCU Gets Deeper

In Social Justice Cultural Understanding class (SJCU), we just finished working on our 8th grade presentations about institutional racism. We each chose sub-topics, and then annotated articles about the past and present of our issue. We then presented to the class what we learned after reading the articles.

The sub topics were:

Different treatment of historically black colleges

Institutional racism becoming internalized

Educational achievement gap

Racist ads

Racial health disparities

School segregation

Overrepresentation of blacks in the criminal justice system

Discrimination against minority farmers

Ethnic studies ban

Back on asian violence

White caricatures of racial stereotypes

Racial profiling

Black unemployment

Black or Biracial?

Many of us felt like we benefited from the assignment. Emily Soriano, a classmate had this to say,

"Everybody came prepared and they were all really good."

"I think everyone worked really hard, and was interested in their topics," said Greta Rainbow.

What we learned about institutional racism was intense, such as nooses being hung as a death threat to racial profiling, and our knowledge will continue to grow about cultural awareness.