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We are having a meeting Saturday, February 13th at 4 pm, if you are interested in learning more, sign up for our emails and you'll be able to attend the Zoom meeting. At this week's meeting, we will be working on our Books Project. Right now, we are working specifically on having books and a curriculum for younger students. We have narrowed down a lot of books into our top favorites. The books had to go through a very strongly critiqued process, where we research the author, their background, the story behind the book, etc. This week we finalize our ten or so favorites and move forward with researching activities that could either be worked the current curriculum or be used to create a new one. Our overarching goal for this project is to have a wide variety of books, and curriculums to go along with them, that are diverse and anti-racist for all VT students K-12. We want to start educating people as early as possible to prevent internalized racism in students of color and teach white students how to be anti-racist. Internalized racism is '-the personal conscious or subconscious acceptance of the dominant society's racist views, stereotypes, and biases of one's ethnic group. It gives rise to patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that result in discriminating, minimizing, criticizing, finding fault, invalidating, and hating oneself while simultaneously valuing the dominant culture.'" According to Taking Action Against Racism in Media (TAARM). “Taking Action Against Racism in the Media.” Untitled Document, 16 Oct. 2016, www.div17.org/TAAR/media/topics/internalized-racism.php.
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