Teaching about Race, Racism, and Race Justice
PEDAGOGICAL RESOURCES
WCTL Resource List
Pedagogy Articles: Teaching about Race
Thurber, Amie, Harbin, M.Brielle., & Bandy, Joe. 2019.
“Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice.”
Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching.
L.A. Bell. 2003.
“Telling tales: What stories can teach us about racism.”
Race, ethnicity and education, 6(1), 3-28.
Brielle Harbin, Amie Thurber, and Joe Bandy. 2019.
“Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors.”
Race and Pedagogy Journal, 4/1.
Heinze, Peter. 2008.
“Let's Talk about Race, Baby: How a White Professor Teaches White Students about White Privilege and Racism.”
Multicultural Education, 16(1), 2-11.
Beth McMurtrie. June 18, 2020.
“We Can’t Ignore this Issue: How to Talk with Students About Racism.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education. Proxy Link for this article.
Background Articles: Race in Higher Education
Sarah Brown. July 6, 2020.
“Students of Color Are Not OK. Here's How Colleges Can Support Them.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education. Proxy link for this article.
Scott Carlson and Michael J. Sorrell. June 15, 2020.
“Higher Ed’s Reckoning With Race: A conversation about bigotry, diversity, and opportunity.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education. Proxy link for this article.
Online Resource Guides and Collections
- A Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice
- A Reading List on Issues of Race (Harvard Gazette)
- Teaching Tolerance: Classroom Resources
- 20 Black Scholars You Should Know
- 26 Books, Videos and Plays That Can Help Educate on Race and Racism
- UTC Library Featured Collections: Black Lives Matter
Select Tools, Videos, and Online Projects
Pedagogy Books: Teaching Race
Stephen Brookfield, ed. 2019.
Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism.
San Francisco: Jossey Bass. Access @ UTC Library.
bell hooks. 2010.
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom.
New York: Routledge. Access @ UTC Library.
Cyndi Kernahan. 2019.
Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor.
Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. Access @ UTC Library.
Ijeoma Oluo. 2018.
So You Want to Talk about Race.
New York, NY: Seal Press. Access @ UTC Library.
Derald Wing Sue. 2015.
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Access @ UTC Library.
Background Books: Racial Inequity and White Privilege
Craig Steven Wilder. 2013.
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities.
New York: Boomsbury. Access@UTC Library.
Derrick Bell. 1992.
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism.
New York: Basic Books. Access@UTC Library
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 2013.
Americanah.
New York, NY: Anchor. Access @ UTC Library.
Carol Anderson. 2016.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
New York: Bloomsbury. Access @ UTC Library.
Mary Frances Berry. 2009.
And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America.
New York: Knopf. Access @ UTC Library..
Mary Frances Berry. 2006.
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations.
New York, NY: Vintage. Access @ UTC Library.
Mary Frances Berry. 1999.
The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present.
New York, NY: Vintage. Access @ UTC Library.
Marcia Chatelain. 2020.
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.
New York, NY: W. W. Norton. Access @ UTC Library.
Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2015.
Between the World and Me.
New York, NY: One World. Access @ UTC Library.
Angela Davis. 2015.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement.
Chicago: Haymarket Books. Access @ UTC Library.
Robin DiAngelo. 2018.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism.
Boston, MA: Beacon Press. Access @ UTC Library.
Ralph Ellison. 1995 [1952]
Invisible Man.
Vintage International. Access @ UTC Library.
Henry Louis Gates. 2019.
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow.
New York: Penguin. Access @ UTC Library.
Elizabeth Hinton. 2016.
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Access @ UTC Library.
Ibram X. Kendi. 2019.
How to Be Anti-Racist.
New York, NY: One World.
Daniel Immerwahr. 2019.
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.
New York, NY: Picador.
Danielle McGuire. 2010.
At the Dark End of the Street Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power.
New York, NY: Knopf. Access @ UTC Library.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad. 2010.
Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Access @ UTC Library.
Barbara Ransby. 2003.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Struggle: A Radical Democratic Vision.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Access @ UTC Library.
Paula S. Rothenberg. 2016.
White privilege: Essential readings on the other side of racism. Fifth Edition.
New York, NY: Worth Publishers/Macmillan.
Richard Rothstein. 2017.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.
New York: Liveright. Access @ UTC Library.
Shannon Sullivan. 2006.
Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Access @ UTC Library.
Tim Wise. 2010.
Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity.
San Francisco: City Lights Books. Access @ UTC Library.
Tim Wise. 2011.
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son: Third Edition.
Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press. Access @ UTC Library.
Tim Wise. 2015.
Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America.
San Francisco: City Lights Books. Access @ UTC Library.
Tim Wise. 2020.
Dispatches from the Race War.
San Francisco: City Lights Books.
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Books, Articles, and Other Resources
Gwen Bass and Michael Lawrence-Riddell. January 20, 2020.
“Culturally Responsive Teaching and UDL.”
Faculty Focus.
Alicia Fedelina Chavez and Susan Diana Longerbeam. 2016.
Teaching Across Cultural Strengths: A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching.
Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing. Access @ UTC Library.
Special Reports: Race and Diversity in Higher Education
Tia Brown McNair, ed. 2020.
We Hold These Truths: Dismantling Racial Hierarchies, Building Equitable Communities.
Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Mary Bart, ed. 2016.
Diversity and Inclusion in the College Classroom: Faculty Focus Special Report
Madison: Magna Publications.
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