Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Educator Guide

Using Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (Little, Brown 2020) as a mentor text, students will examine their personal experiences with race and racial consciousness as it has developed throughout their lives. They will then create a work of art to represent their understanding of the way race, identity, power, and privilege intersect.

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE

Before reading: Read the Introduction and Reader's Notes from Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. Determine authors' purpose and set up a reader's notebook.

During Reading: Use your reader's notebook to make personal connections to words and phrases that stay with you. Take note of pages that look visually different. What is meaningful or emotionally impactful about them? What feelings and or memories do they evoke?

After Reading: Make a timeline of your own personal history with race, racism, and antiracism. Consider the following questions and add your own.

• When was the first time you realized you (or someone you know) looked different?
• How did people closest to you or those in your immediate family talk about race and racism?
• When was the first time you remember feeling the impact of racism or seeing someone treated unjustly due to the color of their skin?

DIFFERENTIATION

Listen to Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You the audiobook, then journal or speak about and record your thoughts and reactions. Look through the book and annotate the pages with words that are different font size or have different placement on the page. Connect words with emotions and memories using images or text.

ASSESSMENT

Write a personal narrative about the first time you remember becoming conscious about race and racism in your family, community, or society. Focus on showing, rather than telling, the emotional impact this realization had on you.

Read one of the supplementary texts mentioned in the back of the book: All American Boys (Simon & Shuster 2015), Dear Martin (Penguin Random House 2017), The Hate U Give (HarperCollins 2017), Anger is a Gift (Macmillan 2018), The Fire Next Time (Dial Press 1962), Women, Race, and Class (Random House 1981), The Bluest Eye (Holt McDougal 1970). Study characterization, author purpose, intended audience, and the use of language to communicate ideas. Write an additional chapter or your own version of the story including details from your lived experience.

Create an artistic rendition of where you consider yourself to be in the development of understanding antiracism. This could be a poem, a collage, an image of a tree, ax, or other objects that capture the process of overcoming racism and racist patterns of thought and moving toward antiracism.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Get more ideas for teaching with this book in "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Educator Guide." You can also refer to "Signs, Structures, and Systems: Dismantling Racism Inside by Looking Outside" for more lesson ideas.