A Step in Someone Shoes

(Do not write your name on this!)

Edel:
I have to work to contribute to the family finances (step back)
My family owns a summer home or second home (step forward)
I am white (step forward)
I or a family member have been denied health care due to lack of health insurance (step back)
I dont need financial aid to pay for college (step forward)
LaCoryah:
Ive always had health insurance (step forward)
My family can only afford to purchase generic brands/OTC medicines opposed to prescription
(step back)
Ive traveled to a country outside to the United States where I have no relatives (step forward)
I am healthy and able bodied (step forward)
Ive been evicted/forced to move out because my family couldnt afford our rent or mortgage
(step back)
Denisse:
I have a trust fund or stocks or bonds in my name (step forward)
I identify as gay, queer, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans, or LGBTQ etc. (step back)
I have never been harassed based on my religious beliefs (step forward)
Ive once had/grown up with asthma as a result of my environment (step back)
I have/once had a credit card that my parent paid for (step forward)
Evelyn
Ive shopped with food stamps/EBT card (step back)
I feel completely safe taking walks around my neighborhood at night (step forward)
I was placed in an English Language Learning/ English Language Development class when I was
younger (step back)
I am a women (step back)
I attended private school (step forward)
Myra
I was raised in a single parent household (step back)
My parents attended and complete college (step forward)
I am a U.S. Citizen (step forward)
I was raised in an area where there was crime or drug activity (step back)
I will inherit money and property in the future (step forward)
Suki:
I live in a neighborhood with fast food restaurants within 5 miles for each other (step back)
My parents were able to pack me a healthy lunch growing up (step forward)
I am male (step forward)
Ive never heard the sound of a gunshot in my neighborhood (step forward)
Ive had to shoplift to provide for my own need (step back)
2 minutes - Introductions
- Name
- Major
5 minutes - worksheet (passing out, explaining, filling out)
Edel & Lacoryah
- Facilitate the game rules
1 minute - move the desk
15 minutes- For game
7 minutes- Discussion of game
Evelyn & Denisse
- Count how many steps forwards
- What did you think of the privilege of the person you represented
- Think about before and after this exercise,
- Count how many step backwards
Chapter Review
Suki & Mayra
-Cultural Demen
Chapter review:
- Author promotes Peggy McIntoshs classic essay white Privilege : Unpacking the
invisible knapsack
- Pro: Give a broader structure to promote or protect racism and perform actions.
- Con: 1. does not capture the difference btw our privilege and how other might
perceive or experience our identity.
2. only focused on race and racism
3. Doesnt capture cultural attributes interact and differentially shape privilege
- So the Author created her own
1. Understand the basics of ones culture and the impact on identity
a. identify your culture dimension, the reason behind it, and does it
impact other dimensions
2. Determine if your dimensions dominant (privilege) or subordinate
(disadvantage)
3. How we see ourselves versus how other perceive us
4. Understand and reflect the privileges that you have and were there any
surprised.
- It is easy for us to focused on our identity that is associated with the subordinate-group
(victim)
- Use of self = use of the cultural self
 A Step in Someone Shoes
(Do not write your name on this!)
I have to work to contribute to the family finances.
My family owns a summer home or second home.
I am white.
I or a family member have been denied health care due to lack of health insurance.
I dont need financial aid to pay for college.
Ive always had health insurance.
My family can only afford to purchase generic brands/OTC medicines opposed to
prescription.
Ive traveled to a country outside of the United States where I have no relatives.
I am healthy and able bodied.
Ive been evicted/forced to move out because my family couldnt afford our rent
or mortgage.
I have a trust fund or stocks or bonds in my name.
I identify as gay, queer, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans, intersexual, asexual, or
pansexual.
I have never been harassed based on my religious beliefs.
Ive once had/grown up with asthma as a result of my environment.
I have/once had a credit card that my parent paid for.
Ive shopped with food stamps/EBT card.
I feel completely safe taking walks around my neighborhood at night.
I was placed in an English Language Learning/ English Language Development
class when I was younger.
I am a women.
I attended private school.
I was raised in a single parent household.
My parents attended and completed college.
I am a U.S. Citizen.
I was raised in an area where there was crime or drug activity.
I will inherit money and property in the future.
I live in a neighborhood with fast food restaurants within 5 miles for each other.
I am a male.
My parents income qualified me to receive free/reduced lunch growing up.
Ive never heard the sound of a gunshot in my neighborhood.
Ive had to shoplift to provide for my own need.