On Downloads 1-3: "The last article (Moghaddam) provides a background for understanding where our own identity comes from, and allows us to better understand people who don't share our identity. It includes a number of real world examples that can help the reader understand the importance of our identity, and how minority groups have fought for equal rights through history. The next few articles are the foundational articles from Travis Dixon, a Black communication scholar at the University of Illinois who has published extensively on 1. over representing Blacks as both victims and perpetrators of crime in TV news, and 2. the impact of seeing this portrayal on real world attitudes." - Professor
On Download 4: "I have attached a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published The New Yorker magazine on January 16, 1943. It was the middle of World War II, and a time in American history when race relations were essentially ignored.(Incidentally, it was also Jackson's first published short story.) The theme of the story is powerful: our unexamined attitudes about race are sometimes very subtle, yet no less toxic." - Professor
"The talk by Fr. Kolvenbach holds our feet to the fire (his phrasing, referring to justice asked of everyone at Jesuit universities); the letter from Dr King calls us all to self-purification and peaceful action." - Professor
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