Events
January
14th Opening Reception for From Experience
January
15th Martin Luther King Day
January
24th- January 28th No Name Calling Week
Middle Schools across the country participate in this national anti-bullying
event. For more information including lesson plan ideas and ways to participate,
visit Teaching
Tolerance online.
February
Black History Month
February
1-18th Guided Tours of the Exhibit. Please call to schedule your
group tour.
February
12th Free Saturday Workshop for From Experience. Workshop includes
a guided tour of the exhibit and a collage art activity relating to the exhibit.
All ages and families are welcome. Please call the Art Center to reserve you
place.
Web Resources and Activities
National
Civil Rights Museum
Take a virtual tour of the museum and find information about key people and
events such as Nat Turner’s Revenge in the “Voices of Struggle”
section of the website.
Implicit
Association Test
Take an online test to see what hidden stereotypes you may unknowingly harbor.
PBS
Culture Shock:
A companion site to the PBS series about art, cultural values and freedom
of expression.
Are the Arts Dangerous? “They inspire, but may provoke. They thrill,
but sometimes offend. And often the same artwork attracts both acclaim and
condemnation. This site provides context that promotes understanding of the
history of the arts and controversy. Artists featured in this site address
such perennially divisive topics as race, religion, politics, sex, and violence.
Although artworks reflecting these issues are included, the site is designed
so that visitors must make the choice of what they wish to view, listen to
or read, and may opt out of seeing any objectionable material. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/culture
shock/
PBS
Culture Shock- Art and Video Game Violence
This Web activity asks you to consider controversial art which deals with
issues of race, sex, and stereotypes in movies, paintings and video games.
The question to consider: Should it be censored?
Teacher’s
domain- WGBH Boston
Multi-media resources for the classroom including lesson plans, videos and
more focusing on desegregation and Brown vs. Board of Education.
The
Troy State University Montgomery Rosa Parks Library and Museum
Information and images about Rosa Park’s place in the Civil Rights movement.
Teaching
Tolerance
”Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance” A project of the Southern Poverty
Law Center
Lesson plans, resources and grant opportunities for schools as well as information
for parents, teens and kids.
PBS
Culture Shock:
A companion site to the PBS series about art, cultural values and freedom
of expression.
Are the Arts Dangerous? “They inspire, but may provoke. They thrill,
but sometimes offend. And often the same artwork attracts both acclaim and
condemnation. This site provides context that promotes understanding of the
history of the arts and controversy. Artists featured in this site address
such perennially divisive topics as race, religion, politics, sex, and violence.
Although artworks reflecting these issues are included, the site is designed
so that visitors must make the choice of what they wish to view, listen to
or read, and may opt out of seeing any objectionable material. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/culture
shock/
PBS
Culture Shock- Art and Video Game Violence
This Web activity asks you to consider controversial art which deals with
issues of race, sex, and stereotypes in movies, paintings and video games.
The question to consider: Should it be censored?
Turner’s Revolt
Learn more about Nat Turner's Revolt, a theme featured in Ronald Hall's painting
"After Turner's Revolt".
Stono
Rebellion
Learn more about the Stone Rebellion, another theme in the painting "After
Turner's Revolt."
Emotional
Consequences of Bullying
Bart
Simpson's chalkboard sayings
Duane Johnson's Dunce features pages of script of chalkboard sayings.
See which ones you identify from the Simpson's show when you look at the painting.
Bullying
Statistics
Bullying in Schools
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content3/bullies.k12.2.html
http://www.naspcenter.org/factsheets/bullying_fs.html
http://www.bullyonline.org/schoolbully/school.htm
http://www.bullybeware.com/moreinfo.html
Suggested
Books (from Teaching Tolerance website)
The Misfits a
novel by James Howe, that chronicles the experiences of an eclectic group
of 7th-graders facing consistent ridicule by their classmates. Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Hate Hurts: How Children
Learn and Unlearn Prejudice
by Caryl Stern-LaRosa and Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann
ISBN: 0-439-21121-2 (2000/ $10) Scholastic Inc.
"Hate Hurts: How Children
Learn and Unlearn Prejudice" by Caryl Stern-LaRosa and Ellen Hofheimer
Bettmann is a practical and easy-to-implement handbook on confronting prejudice
and accepting differences in people. Real events and role playing scenarios
are coupled to promote respectful behaviors from pre-school through high school.
Resources and reading lists for all ages are included.
Teaching Tolerance: Raising
Open-Minded, Empathetic Children
by Sara Bullard
ISBN: 0-385-47264-1 Doubleday (1996/ $21.95)
"Teaching Tolerance: Raising Open-Minded, Empathetic Children" helps
parents understand how children learn prejudice and how they can be guided
toward tolerance. The book, written by Sara Bullard, the founding editor of
"Teaching Tolerance" magazine, balances theory and reflection with
practical advice and a long list of resources.
Cliques: Eight Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle
by Charlene C. Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese
ISBN: 0-7679-0653-5 (2001/$14) Broadway Books
Bully, victim or bystander.
Which role will your children play in the "schoolhouse drama" of
their turbulent, angst filled adolescent years? Cliques: Eight Steps to Help
Your Child Survive the Social Jungle reveals some frightening truths about
the "put-down" mindset of today’s middle-schoolers and offers
practical suggestions to guide them through this particularly sensitive time.
The authors conclude each step with a reality checklist of what parents can
and cannot do to help. Step Six: Teach Your Child Tolerance -- particularly
noteworthy in light of recent acts of violence on school grounds -- reminds
us that if children (and adults!) are open-minded and respectful of others,
they are less likely to bow to negative influences.
Suggested
Activities
Compare and Contrast
Take
Action!
Ronald Hall and Duane Johnson use their art to fight against social injustices.
Here are 24 different ways you can make a difference, starting by expanding
your own awareness about racism and bullies:
1. Draw the feeling of a world without racism and bullies.
2. Put together a skit or theater piece that explores racism and bullies.
3. Create a collage that expresses stereotypes about racism.
4. Create a cartoon.
5. Write a poem.
6. Use a variety of materials to build a sculpture relating to the themes
of the exhibit.
7. Create a maze to navigate your way through bullies and racism.
8. Create a recipe for cooking up an antidote for racism and bullying.
9. Write a short story about how a bully is made and how she/he stops being
a bully.
10. Create masks of how racism looks.
11. Interviews others with different backgrounds.
12. Create an improvisational acting piece or role play.
13. Choreograph a dance or song about the themes of the exhibit.
14. Write a newspaper article that expresses your feelings about diversity.
15. Create a scientific experiment.
16. Keep a journal.
17. Hold a discussion ( have a debate, review a book , movie, theater production)
18. Create metaphors about racism and bullying.
19. 12 minute freeform writing on the theme.
20. Research your family heritage. Share your story with others.
21. Speak up when you hear slurs against others.
22. Register to vote. Encourage others to register to vote as well.
23. Watch TV or video games. Then think critically about stereotypes that
you might see.
24. Show kindness to others. Even bullies.
What ideas do you have? Share them with us. E-mail: staff@mkartcenter.org
and we will add them to this list.
Your
"Take Action" Ideas:
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Terms
to Know
Four Types of
Bullying:
1. Verbal Bullying
(Can be heard)
2. Physical Bullying
(Can leave marks)
3. Social Bullying (Heard
by Others)
4. Intimidation (Can
be in the form of a look, gesture or comment.)
Acculturation:
Change of the culture of a group or individual due to contact with a different
culture
Assimilation:
Process where a minority group adopts the customs and attitudes of the dominant
culture
Bicultural: Of
or relating to two distinct cultures
Discrimination:
Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual
merit.
Golliwog: A
stereotypical caricature that crosses a black minstrel (itself a caricature)
with an animal to form a grotesque creature with very dark skin, large white-rimmed
eyes, red or white lips and wild, frizzy hair.
Jim Crow Era:
The period in the United States from 1877 to 1965 when African Americans
were relegated to the status of second-class citizens through laws, social
etiquette and acts of violence.
Majority:
a group having the most power relative to other groups within a society.
Minority: A
group having little power or representation relative to other groups within
a society.
Nat Turner's Rebellion:
The most violent slave revolt in the United States. In 1831 Nat Turner led
a group of African American Slaves in Virginia to overthrow the plantation
families. After killing 60 white people, more than 100 slaves were killed
in an attempt to put down the rebellion.
Prejudice:
A preconceived idea; a negative judgement or opinion formed beforehand or
without knowledge or examination of the facts; irrational suspicion or hatred
of a particular group.
Race: A
modern, sociological idea that divides people into groups by physical characteristics.
Recent scientific findings note that race has no genetic basis. There is no
one gene that distinguishes members of various so called races.
Racism: Discrimination
based on the belief that some races are by nature superior.
Segregation:
The policy of separating people of different races, especially as a form of
discrimination.
Stereotype:
Generalizations that are most often mistaken, often used to demean groups.
