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

This book presents thoughtful reflections and in-depth, critical analyses of the new challenges and opportunities instructors face in teaching race during what has been called the {esc}(3z{esc}(Bpost-racial era{esc}(3y.{esc}(B It examines the racial dimensions of the current political, economic, and cultural climate. The book features renowned scholars and experienced teachers from a range of disciplines and offers successful strategies for teaching important concepts through case studies and active learning exercises. It provides innovative strategies, novel lesson plans and classroom activities for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about race and racism to today's students. A valuable handbook for educators, this book should be required reading for all graduate students and college instructors Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching About Race and Anti-Racism in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 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 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 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 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 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 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 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 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 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