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This second revised edition of «When Race Breaks Out» is a guide for instructors who want to promote honest and informed conversations about race and racism. Based on the author's personal practice and interviews with students and faculty from a variety of disciplines, this book combines personal memoirs, advice, teaching ideas, and lively stories from college classrooms. A unique insider's guide to the salient ideas, definitions, and opinions about race helps instructors answer students' questions and anticipate their reactions, both to the material and to each other. An updated annotated bibliography of over 250 articles, books, and videos with recommendations for classroom use is included.
List of contents
Contents: Starting With Ourselves: Telling Our Stories - Insider's Guide Part I: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity - Insider's Guide Part II: Discrimination, Racism,
and Race Hatred - Classroom Confrontations - Having a «Civil Conversation» - Start With Students Where They Are: White Student Reactions - Mixing It Up: Reactions of Students of Color - Exercises, Assignments, and Advice - Annotated Resources and More Ideas for Assignments and Discussions.
About the author
Helen Fox is a retired faculty member of the University of Michigan¿s Social Theory and Practice Program. She is the author of Their Highest Vocation: Social Justice and the Millennial Generation (2011), Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing (1994) and the editor, with C. Schroeder and P. Bizzell, of ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy (2002), as well as many articles, speeches and book chapters.
Summary
This second revised edition of "When Race Breaks Out" is a guide for instructors who want to promote honest and informed conversations about race and racism. An updated annotated bibliography of over 250 articles, books, and videos with recommendations for classroom use is included.
