Not surprised to see this rabbit hole end (or begin?) with anthropology tbh
https://twitter.com/madisonmwoods/status/1357068194721202178
I’m not quick to judge pedagogy out of context. But there is only ever one context for the “imagine being a slave!” assignment, in all its many iterations. It is bad.
As someone who spent some time in a teacher training program once, the commitment to teaching this way runs the gamut from k-21. It’s a worldview & its adherents rarely care how dangerous it is because it makes THEM feel better.
These assignments are generally about the instructor’s discomfort with their own empathy gap. To assuage their identity conflict over that empathy gap, they inflict psychological trauma on Black students and intellectual malpractice on non-Black students.
You don’t, for instance, see the same corpus of assignments for “experiencing” Hiroshima or concentration camps or other global, catastrophic historical events.
The worldview is absolutely about whiteness but all kinds of instructors deploy this strain of whiteness. It’s active anti-blackness and no one is immune to that.
Stop doing these assignments, in any form.
Stop doing these assignments, in any form.
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