Black Lives Matter / Racial language

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

BLACK LIVES MATTER

What do you already know
about BLM?

How did the Alquin text portray feelings of distrust towards the police?

Rules in the classroom for discussion

- This is a huge topic with a lot of background information...

- Listen carefully to each other

- You're allowed to voice your own opinion 

- Agree to disagree

 

After slavery was abolished in the US in 1865,
Black Americans kept being discriminated against by society. Can you think of other examples of how they were discriminated?

Slavery and BLM

What about Disney movies?

- Research conducted by Lippi-Green (2012)

In a nutshell, the groundbreaking research shows that....

- Characters with strongly positive actions speak the mainstream variety of English 

- Characters with strongly negative actions/motivations often speak varieties of marginalized groups (e.g. Afro American/Arabic accents)

- Important side note: "Even when stereotyping is not overtly negative, it is confining and misleading." (p.101) 

Read the cartoon on the left. Explain the metaphor that is used in your own words (explain what is meant). 

 Question box on next slide!

Explain the metaphor that is used in the cartoon on the previous slide.

Some people say it should be 'All Lives Matter' instead of
'Black Lives Matter'. 

1. What do you think they mean by this? 

2. Do you agree or disagree? 

After the protest in Amsterdam, a lot of people argued that it should have been banned due to the risk of spreading the Coronavirus.

What do you think is more important: the right to protest or preventing the virus from spreading? Explain why.

Say whether you agree or disagree with the statements in the next slides.

Racism is just as much a problem in The Netherlands as it is in the US.

1. Agree
2. Disagree

It should be 'All Lives Matter' instead of 'Black Lives Matter'.

1. Agree
2. Disagree

My school should pay more attention to ethnicity.

1. Agree
2. Disagree

George Floyd's murder (and its aftermath) has made me more aware of the issues regarding race.

1. Agree
2. Disagree

What did you think of this lesson? Did you like it or not? What did you (dis)like about it?