- Author
- TuSmith, Bonnie and Maureen T. Reddy, eds.
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
- ISBN
- 813531098
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Race in the College Classroom
Part I Authority and (Il)Legitimacy
Two Voices from the Front Lines: A Conversation about Race in the Classroom (Karen Elias and Judith C. Jones)
Teaching in Florida: The End of Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race (Sarika Chandra)
A Ghost in the Collaborative Machine: The White Male Teacher in the Multicultural Classroom (Peter Kerry Powers)
Decentering Whiteness: Resisting Racism in the Women's Studies Classroom (Pattie Duncan)
Smashing the Rules of Racial Standing (Maureen T. Reddy)
When the Political is Personal: Life on the Multiethnic Margins (Jennifer Ho)
The Entanglements of Teaching Nappy Hair (Rebecca Meacham)
Beyond Bull Conner: Teaching Slavery in Alabama (Fred Ashe)
Fear and the Professorial Center (Kevin Everod Quashie)
Part 2 Rewards and Punishments
Out on a Limb: Race and the Evaluation of Frontline Teaching (Bonnie TuSmith)
Whiteness on a White Canvas: Teaching Race in a Predominantly White University (Karyn D. McKinney)
Gift Wrapped or Paper Bagged?: Packaging Race for the Classroom (Rajini Srikanth)
The Question of Comfort: The Impact of Race on/in the College Classroom (Virginia Whatley Smith)
Far More than Frybread: The Tender Issue of Race in Teaching Literature (Roberta J. Hill)
Menaced by Resistance: The Black Teacher in the Mainly White School/Classroom (Gîtahi Gîtîtî)
Strategies for Surviving Race in the Classroom (Karen J. Leong)
Traps, Pitfalls, and Obstacles: Challenges to Confronting Racism in Academia (Brenda Bourdreau and Tami Eggleston)
Part 3 Transformative Practices
Confronting the "Screaming Baboon": Notes on Race, Literature, and Pedagogy (José L. Torres-Padilla)
Centering the Margins: A Chicana in the English Classroom (Norma E. Cant√∫)
Race, Discomfort, and Love in a University Classroom (Daniel P. Liston)
Moonwalking Technoshamans and the Shifting Margin: Decentering the Colonial Classroom (Louis Owens)
The Colorblind Cyberclass: Myth and Fact (Sharon Packer)
Skinwalking and Color Linecrossing: Teaching Writing Against Racism (Gary L. Lemons)
Racing into the Academy: Pedagogy and Black Faculty (A. Yemisi Jimoh and Charlene Johnson)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teaching the Biology of Human Variation and the Social Construction of Race (Joseph L. Graves Jr.)
Conclusion: Teaching to Make a Difference (Bonnie TuSmit and Maureen T. Reddy
Selected References
Contributors
Did affirmative action programs solve the problem of race on American college campuses, as several recent books would have us believe? If so, why does talking about race in anything more than a superficial way make so many students uncomfortable? Written by college instructors from many disciplines, this volume of essays takes a bold first step toward a nationwide conversation. Each of the twenty-nine contributors addresses one central question: what are the challenges facing a college professor who believes that teaching responsibly requires an honest and searching examination of race?
Professors from the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and education consider topics such as how the classroom environment is structured by race; the temptation to retreat from challenging students when faced with possible reprisals in the form of complaints or negative evaluations; the implications of using standardized evaluations in faculty tenure and promotion when the course subject is intimately connected with race; and the varying ways in which white faculty and faculty of color are impacted by teaching about race. (From the Publisher)
Professors from the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and education consider topics such as how the classroom environment is structured by race; the temptation to retreat from challenging students when faced with possible reprisals in the form of complaints or negative evaluations; the implications of using standardized evaluations in faculty tenure and promotion when the course subject is intimately connected with race; and the varying ways in which white faculty and faculty of color are impacted by teaching about race. (From the Publisher)