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1. What does Tim Wise argue is white privilege?  What are at least two examples he uses to support this claim?
2. Then, reflect on your life experiences and think of a time where race became relevant or you became aware of your racial background.  If you can’t think of an instance, speculate why race has not been prominent in your life.
3. Finally, provide feedback to two of your classmates on their reflection of the film and their own life experiences with the topic of race.
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Tim Wise argues that white privilege is a trick and it worked brilliantly. He explained that those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves as that term ever. There was no white race but in the colonies of what would become the United States. In the 1660 and 1670s, we began to see that Africans of indentured servant status, most of them not enslaved yet they were not yet permanently enslaved. He explained that white privilege is a set of advantages that some would say are enjoyed by “white people” after those who experience nonwhite people in the same social, political, and economic spaces.
I became aware of my racial background when I was about five years old and I was always attending powwows with my grandmother. I attended classes every Tuesday night and was taught how to do what we call “Jingle” and “Fancy Shawl.” The jingle dance is performed by women and girls in First Nations as well as Native American communities. The dance gets its name from metal cones (ziibaaska’iganan) attached to our dresses that make a distinctive sound as we dance around in a large circle. The fancy Shawl is often called Northern Shawl because it comes from Northern tribes along with the United States and Canadian border. We wear shawls over our shoulders and dance by spinning and jumping around keeping in pace with the music. I received my first matching dress, shawl, as well as accessories when I was seven years old, which meant I was ready to do my first dance. Going to Powwows became a traditional holiday every weekend for my family and I. Not only did I get the amazing opportunity to dance at pow wows but I was able to always have an amazing meal after a long dance. My family had a booth set up wherever the next Powwow was located where they sold Native American Frybread. The Frybread is a warm fluffy piece of bread that we topped with meat, beans, lettuce, tomato, and any other toppings you desired, they had it all. Unfortunately due to COVID-19, we can no longer have the huge gatherings like old times, but it will always be part of our tradition.

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1. Tim Wise argues that white privilege is that being white has been far easier than not being white. Systematic white privilege is built into the foundation of our country.
example 1: The Naturalization Act after the ratification of the Constitution said that free white people, and only free white people could be a U.S. citizen.
example 2: “Steve in Louisiana” could apply for job insurance, not everyone had that privilege. Agricultural workers and domestic service workers in homes did not qualify. And this had everything to do with race, over 80% of all black people worked in these areas.
2. As a Palestinian muslim woman in san diego, I have experienced a number of times where my race was very relevant. Going to a predominately white elementary school, people looked at me weird and I couldn’t understand why. I asked my mom why I looked so different and why I couldn’t have a normal name that people could pronounce correctly. And not mistakenly call me “Jasmine”. I then moved to a predominately middle eastern high school, but was still deemed as “different” because I was muslim and even my friends would make comments and jokes about it all the time, which I always knew was prejudice and islamophobic but I didn’t know how to stand up for myself.