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Line Exercise, The

In this activity, participants are asked to consider how their belonging to certain social groups influences their experiences and the opportunities they receive by physically placing themselves on one side of a line or another depending on their identification with particular social categories. 

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Paper Basket Exercise

In this activity, participants reflect on the various dimensions of identity and potential sites of privilege or barriers that are associated with these dimensions.

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Eye of the Storm, The & A Class Divided

This activity enables participants to reflect on privilege and social power, as well as understand how certain identities privileged over others affect our behaviors, how we view ourselves, and how we view others. 

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Archie Bunker's Neighborhood

This activity helps participants understand stereotypes and discrimination and how they affect different groups of people, especially in terms of systemic oppression.

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Whiteness Project Activity on White Privilege

During this activity, participants provide an example of white privilege, identify colorblindness as a form of white privilege, and express how talking about whiteness can help deconstruct white privilege.

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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

This activity helps participants to understand the concepts systemic oppression, privilege, and power, and how they all relate to each other. It also allows them to reflect on the ways in which they and others are both advantaged and disadvantaged in society.

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What is White Privilege, Really?

This article defines white privilege and lists ways that people with white privilege can move beyond guilt or defensiveness and even use it in ways that benefit all people.

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Mental Blocks: Understanding Different Perspectives and Privilege

This activity will enable participants to understand different perspectives, build empathy, and become aware of privilege and how it affects power dynamics. It will also help them to learn why privilege matters and how it impacts their lives, as well as develop skills in communication, self-management, self-awareness, and building relationships with others. 

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Up-Down-Up

In this activity, participants examine cultural identity and self-awareness, identify aspects of their cultural identity and become more aware of them, and recognize and discuss cultural differences.

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Privilege Walk

This activity allows participants to see the complexity surrounding the concept of privilege and understand what privilege they enjoy based on the social groups to which they belong.

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Privilege for Sale

This activity enables participants to recognize the privileges that they have and don't have. In this activity, participants will "buy" the privileges that they deem the most valuable and then discuss their decisions. 

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How Easy is My Daily Life? (Lego Privilege Activity)

This activity uses Legos to help participants understand where they face advantages and disadvantages in their daily lives. It also explains privilege as unearned advantages.

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