Changing the Mental Discourse on Whiteness

• In Event: G.I.F.T.S. Session I

Abstract

Students are asked to go on a scavenger hunt. Students fill out a worksheet where they analyze greeting cards, personal products in a drugstore, the toy sections of a local store, the magazine section (front covers), and their childhood memories of elementary school. Students begin to understand whiteness and otherness are operationalized in societal images about race, specifically how whiteness is normalized.

Author

• Misty Wilson, Georgia State University