ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how to discuss bias and stereotyping through film, helps us to learn how to intentionally model the message of empathy, and emboldens students to take control of their narrative. Talking about social awareness brings important issues to the forefront, and these are issues that most people have sometimes tiptoed around. Social awareness isn't simply understanding the world around us, but rather also knowing that the people around us are going to make assumptions about us. Those assumptions might be right, or they might be wrong, and very little can be done to change their minds. However, it is crucial that we control our own narrative, tell our own stories, and don't let anyone define our path except for us. When students are confronted with a social reality that doesn't meet their personal vision of themselves, they are often swayed by the social reality because they don't know how to stay the course.
