Teaching About Race
This webpage primarily contains materials and activities developed by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay for teaching about race.
Some of the activities supplement material in Part 1 (The Fallacy of Race as Biology) and Part 2 (Culture Creates Race) of the book How Real is Race? Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture. (Mukhopadhyay, Henze, Moses. Rowman & Littlefield. 3rd edition forthcoming, March 2025).
In the 3rd edition, all supplemental activity descriptions and instructions are located on the Companion Website for the book, organized by chapters (link coming). Occasionally, the activity includes an additional link to materials on this website (see list and links below).
COPYRIGHT-FAIR USE-CITATION. Activities/materials on this website are copyrighted by Mukhopadhyay, unless otherwise noted. They can be downloaded and used for educational or other non-commercial purposes but must be properly cited, using standard professional citation practices (see also individual files for citation information). To use for other purposes, contact Mukhopadhyay directly.
Documents
How Real is Race (HRR) Companion Website related documents are bolded and include the relevant chapter and activity number.
- Exploring My Ancestry: The Ethnic Me. HRR: Ch 4: Activity 4.4, Ch 7: Activity 7.5 : Ch9 (Activity 9.5) [PDF]
- Gene Flow and Genetic Drift Illustration [PDF] HRR: ch3
- The Hug: Ch 5. Activity 5.1. [PDF]
- Ch 5, Activity 5.2: ALBATROSS: Culture Shapes How We Experience Reality [PDF]
- Ch 5, Activity 5.5: Additional activities for teaching about race: The Products of School Culture [PDF]
- Ch 5, Activity 5.5, Culture: More Activities [PDF]
- Ch 6: Activity 6.3. Culture: Central West Virginia Cultural Awareness test [PDF]
- Ch 6: U.S. Army Group IQ Test [PDF]
- Ch 7, Activity 7.2: Starpower: stratification activity [PDF]
- Ch 7 (7.6) and Ch 9 (9.1) . Discussion forms for Mating Activity [PDF]
- Caucasian article for educators , Mukhopadhyay 2008 [PDF]
- Caucasian. 2020. in RACE Goodman, Moses and Jones.
- Additional resources (in process)
Links (in process)
- Albatross Simulation: Live Video
- How Real is Race? Unraveling Race, Biology and Culture, 3rd edition.
- AAA Website for RACE: Are We So Different
- BAFA BAFA: a demo of this cross-cultural awareness activity