Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: Adding Context to Colorblindness

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching About Race and Anti-Racism in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 1-7
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Pulling Back the “Post-Racial” Curtain: Critical Pedagogical Lessons from Both Sides of the Desk....Pages 11-24
The Importance of a Race-Critical Perspective in the Classroom....Pages 25-34
Beyond the Trial: The Disproportionate Imprisonment of African Americans....Pages 35-41
Confronting White Educational Privilege in the Classroom: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations and Models....Pages 43-54
Teaching About Race and Racism: The Imperative of History....Pages 55-64
Teaching About Organized Racism....Pages 65-71
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Getting Students to Say What They Are Not Supposed to Say: The Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching About Race in a College Classroom....Pages 75-79
Managing Emotions in the Classroom....Pages 81-89
Hózhó Nahasdlii: Finding Harmony in the Long Shadow of Colonialism. Two Perspectives on Teaching Anti-Racism at a Tribal College....Pages 91-98
Teaching Millennials About Difference Through First-Year Learning Communities....Pages 99-106
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After Colorblindness: Teaching Antiracism to White Progressives in the U.S.....Pages 109-121
Double Consciousness: Faculty of Color Teaching Students of Color About Race....Pages 123-139
Bringing Students into the Matrix: A Framework and Tools for Teaching Race and Overcoming Student Resistance....Pages 141-155
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Transformatory, Community Based Teaching About Race....Pages 159-169
Teaching About Race Through Sports: Documents from the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries Fight....Pages 171-181
Teaching About Affirmative Action: Challenges from a Freshmen Seminar....Pages 183-193
Repacking the White Privilege Knapsack....Pages 195-205
Connections and Crossroads: Using Memoirs to Teach About Race/Ethnicity in the United States....Pages 207-213
Lessons from Crash ....Pages 215-221
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Experiencing Racialization: Digital Ethnography as Professional Development for Teachers....Pages 223-229
‘Veiled for Day’: Social Justice Experiments and Race Pedagogies....Pages 231-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
How “Diversity” Trumped “Race” at One Elite Research University....Pages 239-247
Teaching About Systemic White Racism....Pages 249-256
Teaching Anti-Racism Through Environmental Justice Studies....Pages 257-263
Race, Class and Transformation: Confronting Our History to Move Forward....Pages 265-273
Conclusion: Lessons Learned – Pedagogical and Theoretical Strategies for Teaching Race....Pages 275-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-453