When Race Breaks Out - Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms - 3rd Revised edition

The third revised edition of "When Race Breaks Out" is a guide for college and high school teachers 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 classroom vignettes. A unique insideräs 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 extensive annotated bibliography of articles, books, and videos with recommendations for classroom use is included.

Sommario

Acknowledgments - Introduction to the Third Revised Edition - Introduction - Starting with Ourselves: Telling Our Stories About Race - 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 - Bibliography - Annotated Resources and More Ideas for Assignments.

Info autore

Helen Fox has taught about race and racism, human rights, peace activism, and international development at the University of Michigan for 22 years. She is the author of Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing (1994), Their Highest Vocation: Social Justice and the Millennial Generation (2012), and Fractured: Race Relations in "Post-Racial" American Life (2014).

Riassunto

This book is a guide for college and high school teachers 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 classroom vignettes.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Helen Fox, Fox Helen
• Con la collaborazione di: Shirley R. Steinberg (Editore), Shirley R. Steinberg (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781433134784
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-3478-4
• Pagine: 262
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 400 g
• Serie: Higher Ed; Higher Ed - Questions About the Purpose(s) of Colleges and Universities; Higher Ed - Questions About the Purpose(s) of Colleges and Universities; Higher Ed
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Edition, College, Shirley, Race, Helen, Racism, Steinberg, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Conversations, Breaks, classrooms, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Diversity & Multiculturalism, Revised