THUG chapter 7+8+9

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THUG 

lesson 6:

chapter 7 - 9

Study questions part 1

•Starr thinks she’s betraying her community by dating a white guy? What does this mean and do you think she is?

• Do you think Hailey’s fried chicken joke is racist (why/why not)?

• Why does Starr think that she was not a good friend to Khalil?

• Who is April Ofrah? Should she have been at the funeral?

Study questions part 2

• What does King Lord’s presence at the funeral insinuate (including the action with the bandana)?

• Why isn’t Starr sure anymore that Khalil didn’t have a gun in the car?

• What does Chris apologise about when he goes to see Starr at her uncle Carlos's house?

• Why doesn’t Starr tell Chris about Khalil?

Do you think Hailey's fired chicken joke is racist?

YES

NO

The Fried Chicken stereotype

• Chickens as key part in Southern diet, especcially for slaves: they were cheap to maintain but a good source of meat.
• portrayal of a black person eating fried chicken in Birth of a Nation (a 1915 movie on founding the KKK)
• fried chicken and watermelon: food you eat with your hands, "dirty", lack of tablemanners --> lack of respect

- Prof. Claire Smith for NPR's Codeswitch.

source: 

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/05/22/186087397/where-did-that-fried-chicken-stereotype-come-from?t=1618949409428 

"Just a Joke" -  microagressions

"Even if someone truly harbors no racist intention, or even a racist mindset, that still does not excuse the comment. These are not crimes of intention, they are acts which do harm in and of themselves." - planamag.com

source: https://planamag.com/the-its-just-a-joke-excuse-is-an-attack-on-everybody/

Microagressions...

• are small and can be easily explained away
• are cumulative
• are perpetrated by many different people
• Many people do not consciously know that they are perpetrating a microagression against someone.

- So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo

Could jokes also be microagressions?

YES

NO

IT'S COMPLI-CATED

Themes in THUG

• get in breakout rooms
• use your notes on 'Themes' from a previous lesson
• what themes have you noticed in this book so far?
• give a one-sentence explanation per theme 

What themes can you see in the book so far? Explain.

HW next time:

read chapter 10, 11, 12

answer the reading questions in Magister in your notebook.