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4.05 Witnessing Prejudice

Directions: Watch the videos linked on the task page. After watching or reading the account of each film, answer the questions using complete sentences.

What Would You Do? Bike Theft

1. How did the video make you feel after watching it?

     

2. Explain how this video is a depiction of prejudice or racism.

     

3. What is a stereotype?

     

4. How does this video provide an example of racial stereotypes?

     

What Would You Do? Shopping While Black

5. How did the video account make you feel after reading it?

     

6. Explain how this video account is a depiction of prejudice or racism.

     

7. How does this video account provide an example of racial stereotypes?

     

General Questions to answer:

8. Sociologist Robert Merton identified 4 ways that people combine prejudice and discrimination. In the 2 movies/account you just watched/read, you saw people who fit into those 4 types. Fill in the chart below using Merton’s 4 types and an example from one of the films that fit the type. One example is provided for you.

|Merton’s Type |Which movie? (Bike Thief |Example of that type from that movie |

| |or Racial Profiling) | |

|Ex. Unprejudiced discriminator |Racial Profiling |A customer who might not have been prejudiced personally but |

| | |was scared to stand up for the girls for fear of what others |

| | |might say |

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9. How can you as an individual help to overcome prejudice attitudes among your peers? Answer in 1-paragraph.

     

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