Teaching About Race
This webpage primarily contains materials and activities developed by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay for teaching about race.
Many are relevant to 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. 2025). In the 3rd edition, supplemental activity descriptions and instructions are available on the book's companion website, ONLINE COMPANION RESOURCES as a downloadable Comprehensive Activities File.
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, 3rd edition) On-Line 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: HRR: Ch 5. Activity 5.1. [PDF]
- HRR Ch 5, Activity 5.2: ALBATROSS: Culture Shapes How We Experience Reality [PDF]
- HRR Ch 5, Activity 5.5: Additional activities for teaching about race: The Products of School Culture [PDF]
- HRR Ch 5, Activity 5.5, Culture: More Activities [PDF]
- HRR Ch 6: Activity 6.3. Culture: Central West Virginia Cultural Awareness test [PDF]
- HRR Ch 6: U.S. Army Group IQ Test [PDF]
- HRR Ch 7, Activity 7.2: Starpower: stratification activity [PDF]
- HRR 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)