Anti-racist Pedagogy
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Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and TeachingDewitt Wallace Library, Suite 338 651-696-6605
The global uprising against anti-Blackness, racism, and white supremacy following the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd in May of 2020 – not 10 miles from Macalester – demanded (once again) that colleges and universities, including Macalester, reckon with our past, be honest about our present, and offer more than words and promises for our future. This is a critical opportunity to engage in anti-racist pedagogy, understand the ways in which white supremacy operates both within and beyond higher education, and engage with the extensive scholarship on race and racism (including, but of course not limited to, the fine work of some of our Macalester colleagues).
Anti-racist Pedagogy
- The Race and Pedagogy Institute
- Anti-racist pedagogy: From faculty self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom (Kyoko Kishimoto, 2016)
- Strategies for anti-racist and decolonized teaching (Twyman-Ghosal & Lacorazza, 2021)
- The anti-racist discussion pedagogy (Chew, Houston, & Cooper)
- Do we even know what anti-racist pedagogy means? (Kim Case, 2021)
- What anti-racist teachers do differently (a K-12 focused piece in the Atlantic by Pirette McKamey; very relevant to higher ed, too)
- Pedagogical strategies to acknowledge and discuss institutional legacies of racism (Dr. Valentina Iturbe-LaGrave, June 2020)
- Eight actions to reduce racism in college classrooms (Shaun Harper & Charles Davis III, 2016)
- Barriers and strategies by white faculty who incorporate anti-racist pedagogy (Jennifer Akamine Phillips, Nate Risdon, Matthew Lamsma, Angelica Hambrick, and Alexander Jun, 2019)
- Anti-racist educator questionnaire and rubric
- Antiracist resources compiled by the MLA, June 2020
- Indigenous pedagogy resources (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
- Becoming an anti-racist educator (Wheaton College Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning)
- Teaching to Transgress (bell hooks, 1994)
Anti-racist Writing Pedagogy
Teaching about Race and Racism
- Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism (Stephen D. Brookfield, 2018)
- Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes From a White Professor (Cyndi Kernahan, 2019)
- Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors (M. Brielle Harbin, Amie Thurber, and Joe Bandy, 2019)
- A guide to discussing identity, power, and privilege (with activities)
Confronting anti-Blackness and White Supremacy in Higher Education & Beyond
- Colleges must take a new approach to systemic racism (Warren, 2020)
- Pedagogies of belonging (Gina Athena Ulysse, Wesleyan University, 2017)
- Race matters (David J. Asai, 2020; a commentary about why students of color leave science at high rates and why it’s important to change the culture of science)
- A Call to Action for an Anti-Racist Science Community from Geoscientists of Color: Listen, Act, Lead
- (divorcing) White Supremacy Culture (Tema Okun and colleagues, 2021)
- How to uphold white supremacy by focusing on diversity and inclusion (Kẏra, 2014)
- How white people can help dismantle white supremacy (Vernon-Jones, 2018)
- Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people (Oluo, 2019)
- Performing Whiteness (Sarah Bellamy, 2020)
Collections of Resources on Racism, White Supremacy, & Anti-racist Activism
- Racism in Academia — #shutdownstem
- Institutionalized racism: A syllabus (JSTOR)
- #HashtagSyllabusMovement (curated by the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture)
- RACEJustice (Resist Advocate Connect Educate for Justice; resources related to ethnicity and racialization, social justice)
- Shareable anti-racism resources (an anti-racist resource guide “crafted amidst the anger of the latest black body turned hashtag #AhmaudArbery”)
- Black Light – A Curriculum for the Free
- Unlearning White Supremacy – RESOURCES (a crowd-sourced document developed and maintained by Macalester’s Unlearning White Supremacy group)
- bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES (a collection of resources for white people)