Media-Analysis through an Anti-Racist Lens

Lesson Plan. By Nissim Roffe Piket and Jessica Kong. In collaboration with Julian Schafer.

Screenshot of Kahlil Greene’s TikTok @kahlilgreene

This lesson plan engages students’ critical thinking and analysis skills to identify, “To what degree are representations of race in popular media anti-racist or not?”

This resource includes a graphic organizer for students to practice anti-racist media analysis skills, a final assignment, and an assessment for teachers to utilize.

At the end of the document is a curated list of popular media from which students can choose to do their final projects. These include Key and Peele skits, Kendall Jenner’s 2017 Pepsi commercial, student TikToks and even the game Dungeons and Dragons.

For further reading on teaching anti-racist media analysis skills, Nissim and Jessica recommend Linda Christensen’s “Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us: Critiquing cartoons and society” from ReThinking Schools.