Faculty resources
Pedagogy
‘We Can’t Ignore This Issue’: How to Talk With Students About Racism
Note the "Resources on Teaching About Race and Racism" section toward the end of this article. By Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 18, 2020).
Want to Reach All of Your Students? Here’s How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
By Viji Sathy and Kelly A. Hogan, Chronicle Advice Guide (July 22, 2019).
Barriers and Strategies by White Faculty Who Incorporate Anti-Racist Pedagogy
By Jennifer Akamine Phillips, Nate Risdon, Matthew Lamsma, Angelica Hambrick, and Alexander Jun, Race and Pedagogy Journal (2019).
Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors
By M. Brielle Harbin, Amie Thurber, and Joe Bandy, Race and Pedagogy Journal (2019).
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Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom
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Teaching about race and racism can be a difficult business. Students and instructors alike often struggle with strong emotions, and many people have robust preexisting beliefs about race. At the same time, this is a moment that demands a clear understanding of racism. It is important for students to learn how we got here and how racism is more than just individual acts of meanness. Students also need to understand that colorblindness is not an effective anti-racism strategy. In this book, Cyndi Kernahan argues that you can be honest and unflinching in your teaching about racism while also providing a compassionate learning environment that allows for mistakes and avoids shaming students. She provides evidence for how learning works with respect to race and racism along with practical teaching strategies rooted in that evidence to help instructors feel more confident. She also differentiates between how white students and students of color are likely to experience the classroom, helping instructors provide a more effective learning experience for all students.
Call Number: LB2331 .K42 2019Publication Date: 2019 -
Teaching Race
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A real-world how-to manual for talking about race in the classroom. Educators and activists frequently call for the need to address the lingering presence of racism in higher education. Yet few books offer specific suggestions and advice on how to introduce race to students who believe we live in a post-racial world where racism is no longer a real issue. In Teaching Race the authors offer practical tools and techniques for teaching and discussing racial issues at predominately White institutions of higher education. As current events highlight the dynamics surrounding race and racism on campus and the world beyond, this book provides teachers with essential training to facilitate productive discussion and raise racial awareness in the classroom. A variety of teaching and learning experts provide insights, tips, and guidance on running classroom discussions on race. They present effective approaches and activities to bring reluctant students into a consideration of race and explore how White teachers can model racial awareness, thereby inviting students into the process of examining their own white identity. Racism, whether evident in overt displays or subconscious bias, has repercussions that reverberate far beyond the campus grounds. As the cultural climate increasingly calls out for more research, education, and dialogue on race and racism, this book helps teachers spotlight issues related to race in a way that leads to effective classroom and campus conversation. The book provides guidance on how to: Create the conditions that facilitate respectful racial dialogue by building trust and effectively negotiating conflict Uncover each student's own subconscious bias and the intersectionality that exists even in the most homogenous-appearing classrooms Help students embrace discomfort, and adapt discussion methods to accommodate issues of race and positionality. Avoid common traps, mistakes, and misconceptions encountered in anti-racist teaching Predominantly White institutions face a number of challenges in dealing with race issues, including a lack of precedence, an absence of modeling by campus leaders, and little clear guidance on how teachers can identify and challenge racism on campus. Teaching Race is packed with activities, suggestions and exercises to provide practical real-world help for teachers trying to introduce race in class.
Call Number: LC212.42 .B76 2019Publication Date: 2019 -
Not Light, but Fire
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Do you feel prepared to initiate and facilitate meaningful, productive dialogues about race in your classroom? Are you looking for practical strategies to engage with your students? Inspired by Frederick Douglass's abolitionist call to action, "it is not light that is needed, but fire" Matthew Kay has spent his career learning how to lead students through the most difficult race conversations. Kay not only makes the case that high school classrooms are one of the best places to have those conversations, but he also offers a method for getting them right, providing candid guidance on: How to recognize the difference between meaningful and inconsequential race conversations. How to build conversational "safe spaces," not merely declare them. How to infuse race conversations with urgency and purpose. How to thrive in the face of unexpected challenges. How administrators might equip teachers to thoughtfully engage in these conversations. With the right blend of reflection and humility, Kay asserts, teachers can make school one of the best venues for young people to discuss race.
Call Number: LC1099.3 .K39 2018 and ebookPublication Date: 2018
Lesson Plans
The 1619 Project Curriculum
Reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into your classroom.
National Archives' Special Topics & Tools Educator Resources
Includes ideas for teaching Black American history and race issues in present day.
Perspectives for a Diverse America
An online tool for helping educators to build lesson plans around diversity themes and literature.
Rosa Parks' Biography
A resource for teaching Rosa Parks.
Smithsonian's The History of Racism in America
Articles, videos, podcasts, and websites from the Smithsonian
Study Guides for Teaching "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Various resources presented for teaching Alexander's 2012 book.
Teaching in an Uprising
From Dr. Trish Kahle on the African American Intellectual History Society website, itself an excellent resource for readings and current events through the Black lens.
Teaching Tolerance
A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance includes lesson plans and discussion guides. See in particular Teaching Hard History.
Zinn Education Foundation
Full comprehensive resource for finding pedagogy, praxis, and history for educators as well as a suite of freely available lessons by theme.
Credits
The content on this page has been closely adapted from Broward College Libraries and is used with permission. Dr. John H. Bickford III (Professor of Social Studies/History Education, EIU) also contributed content to this page.
