Teaching race in the twenty-first century : college teachers talk about their fears, risks, and rewards

this Collection Brings Together Pedagogical Memoirs On Significant Topics Regarding Teaching Race In College, Including Student Resistance, Whiteness, Professor Identity, And Curricula. Linking Theory To Practice, The Essays Create An Accessible And Useful Way To Look At Teaching Race For Wide Audiences Interested In Issues Within Higher Education. Written By Professors In Various Fields In The Humanities And Social Sciences, The Collection Looks At How The Integration Of Racial Issues Into The College Classroom, Though Never Straightforward, Is Extremely Imperative, And Should Strive To Respond To The Changing Landscapes Of College Campuses And American Society. 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