Teaching Race in the Twenty-First Century: College Teachers Talk About Their Fears, Risks, and Rewards

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Strange Career of Ethnic Studies and Its Influences on the Teaching of Race and Ethnicity....Pages 15-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Teaching the “Ism” in Racism, or, How to Transform Student Resistance....Pages 35-48
Minor Concerns: The (Im)Possibilities of Critical Race Pedagogies....Pages 49-57
An “Oriental Yankee” in Dixie; or Thinking Diversely about Diversity....Pages 59-70
Teaching Race at Anti-Berkeley and Beyond....Pages 71-82
“Why Do We Always Have to Talk about Race?” Teaching American Literature(s) in the Post-Affirmative Action Liberal Arts Environment....Pages 83-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Rhetorics of Race: Mapping White Narratives....Pages 97-109
Troubling History and Interrogating Whiteness: Teaching Race in a Segregated, White College Setting....Pages 111-122
Investing in White Innocence: Colorblind Racism, White Privilege, and the New White Racist Fantasy....Pages 123-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
White Teacher, Black Writers, White Students: Colorblindness and Racial Consciousness in Teaching African American Literature....Pages 137-150
Do You See What I See?: Teaching Race in the Age of Colorblind America....Pages 151-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Teaching Race: Making the Invisible Concrete....Pages 163-176
Resisting the Straight White Male as Hero/Protagonist in a Course on American Groups in American Films....Pages 177-184
A New Era for Teaching American Indian Studies....Pages 185-198
White Teaching White and (Sometimes) Black about Black....Pages 199-209
Confronting Terrorism: Teaching the History of Lynching Through Photography....Pages 211-225
Dealing with the 9/11 Trigger: Lessons on Race From a Group Exercise....Pages 227-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-246