Interest Convergence and Storytelling
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
By the end of this session, you should be able to:
Define "interest convergence"
Explain the role interest convergence has played on the reshaping of race relations in the U.S.
Define "storytelling"
Explain how storytelling has been used for and against social justice movements
Explain how storytelling can be used to generate interest convergence
Summarize the principles of Critical Race Theory
Watch Lecture
Watch the content lecture below. The purpose of the lecture is to tie in all of the session’s content and to align the content with the session’s learning objectives.
Review Content
There are multiple ways to access the information for this session. There are films, writings, and reflection questions. You get out of this course what you put into it.
Complete Reflections
These course sessions are tailored to your time and effort capacity. Completing the reflections based on whatever information you are able to access is important.
Content Lecture
Watch this lecture from “the Professor,” Dr. Thomas D. Allison, Esq., on the theory of Interest Convergence and Storytelling. Dr. Allison is a professor, an attorney in five states, a nonprofit executive, and has a doctorate in public administration.
Suggested Text: Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics, by Kimberle Crenshaw
Amend
During this episode of Amend, the civil rights movement was covered and how the violence used against nonviolent protestors created interest convergence that resulted in civil rights legislation.
Hope & Fury
This film showcases the role of storytelling in the nonviolent movement. Leveraging media attention to highlight the violence being used against civil rights nonviolent protestors.
Session Reflection Questions
In a journal, write a reflection of what you have learned from this material, covering at least the following elements:
Define "race permanence"
Describe the intersection between race, sex, and class
Explain how the law has been used to forward racial, sexual, and class discrimination
Describe the racial contract and its social impact
Describe the sexual contract and its social impact
Describe the classist contract and its social impact
Explain what you have learned and how it makes you feel
