What stories have we told ourselves, as a people, that live in us as “truth?” Yet, with some research, we find they are not based in fact. What in our white supremacy assumptions have we inherited from WAY back, and live with us today?
Prep Materials:
Colonial America, A Very Short Introduction, by Alan Taylor. Short book, lots of history with “human” narration.
Material Culture in Colonial North America….Read, especially the conclusion.
Coded Bias, w/ Joy Buolamwini-MIT. Netflix Film-83 min OR
Coded Bias Ted Talk– 13 min with Joy Buolamwini
How to keep Coded bias out of AI – 12 min Ted Talk-Kriti Sharma… How Artificial Intelligence replicates, perpetuates, the inherited white supremacy from the colonizer ancestors.
Canadian Website-Unsettling America: Understanding Colonizer Status
From event organizers: Pick and choose, the prep materials are offered as an “extra,” with the intent of planting the seed of curiosity and self-education, not as a “prerequisite” for attending. We start each of our sessions with a mutually created foundation.
