Overview
- Innovative classroom activities and curriculum design, tested by renowned college and university instructors
- Features thoughtful reflections on teaching about race and racism by pioneers in the field
- Addresses dealing with student emotions and cultural resistance regarding discussions on race ?
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Cultivating the Sociological Imagination
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The Importance of Communication and Class Climate
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Connecting with Students
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Innovative Techniques
Keywords
- Anyone Can Achieve the American Dream
- Classroom activities and curriculum design
- Disproportionate Imprisonment by African Americans
- Emotions in the Classroom
- Experiencing Racialization
- Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching Race
- Post-Racial Era in America
- Race-Critical Perspective in the Classroom
- Racial Dimensions of Political, Economic and Cultural Climate
- Racial inequality in the United States
- Teaching Environmental Justice
- Teaching Systemic White Racism
- Teaching about American Race Relations
- Teaching about Race and Ethnicity
- Teaching about Race through Sports
- White Educational Privilege in the Classroom
About this book
This book presents thoughtful reflections and in-depth, critical analyses of the new challenges and opportunities instructors face in teaching race during what has been called the “post-racial era”. It examines the racial dimensions of the current political, economic, and cultural climate. The book features renowned scholars and experienced teachers from a range of disciplines and offers successful strategies for teaching important concepts through case studies and active learning exercises. It provides innovative strategies, novel lesson plans and classroom activities for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about race and racism to today’s students. A valuable handbook for educators, this book should be required reading for all graduate students and college instructors.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America
Book Subtitle: Adding Context to Colorblindness
Editors: Kristin Haltinner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7101-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7100-0Published: 28 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0018-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7101-7Published: 16 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 453
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Cultural Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education