The NPR segment “Family Secret and Cultural Identity Revealed in ‘Little White Lie’” gives us some background for Lacey’s discovery of her African American heritage.
The NPR segment “Family Secret and Cultural Identity Revealed in ‘Little White Lie’” gives us some background for Lacey’s discovery of her African American heritage.
Consider how language gives meaning to experience and the strong link between language and culture for the Indigenous Peoples.
Learn about the relationship between name, identity, and tradition reflected in Inuit naming practices.
Learn about a group of local residents who provide food to migrants traveling through Mexico to the United States.
Learn about the prejudice, stereotypes, and victimization Chinese and Chinese Americans faced in the US in the 1920s.
Read about what Priestley saw in the new year as a soldier in the First World War in his letter from the trenches in 1916.
Read aloud this letter with your class before you embark on the unit Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior (Spanish available).
Read Student Anthony Wright's description of his difficulties categorizing his identity, and consider why reducing individuals to strict groups can be misleading.
Learn about the innovative programs that Bogotá mayor Antanas Mocus instituted to make improvements to the city, and reflect on the ways that change can be made in a society.
Reflect on the challenges posed by making moral judgments about the actions of people in the past.
Consider the importance of African naming practices in South African poet Magoleng wa Selepe’s poem about the effects of colonialism on African identity.
Learn about the development of the Michif language and how it exemplifies a fusion of Métis and French cultures.