@anothercoffeeplease No - the first day, the teacher told us she wouldn't expect us to do all the reading and that she would be lenient given the fact that people have busy schedules. No one ever gives any notion that they've looked at the reading.
@rising_star We only use the videos we are assigned for the week, which can be from 15-60 minutes long. But when we talk about the videos most students are sort of pandering - "Oh my gosh I can't believe what I heard in that video. It was so enlightening. I just can't believe it." Half of these videos give an in-depth history of racism, and the other half features people having conversations about racism in an insightful way. However, our 90 minute classroom sessions are just so pointless I want to rip my hair out. People bring up what they see on the news- the Black Lives Matter movement, the Oscars, Beyonce, etc - I have no problem with this but there is a serious lack of depth to the conversations. We could bring up the existing research on police brutality to black populations but instead it's more like "yeah this is happening, can you believe it?"