Towards a Community of Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education: Transformative Principles, Practices, and Resources for the Classroom

by Jie Y. Park (Editor), Laurie Ross (Editor)

Overview

Weaving together theory, research, and practice, this edited volume provides rich accounts of teaching from faculty at a predominantly white institution who participated in a community of antiracist praxis – a cycle of action and reflection on pedagogy.

The chapters highlight the ways in which faculty can transform classrooms and colorblind discourses in higher education. They center the voices of faculty who are “on the ground” and grappling with their own positionality and academic training to present an antiracist pedagogy that emphasizes student agency and authority, exposes whiteness in course content and inquiry processes, and introduces students to new ways of knowing that are racially just. Each contributing author offers principles, teaching activities, and resources that readers can apply in their own disciplinary or interdisciplinary contexts.

Written for faculty, graduate students, administrators, and pedagogy specialists in higher education, this book urges readers who work in higher education to action, and paves a path forward through the creation of communities of antiracist praxis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040418468
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jie Y. Park is Associate Professor of Education at Clark University, USA.

Laurie Ross is Professor of Community Development and Planning at Clark University, USA

Table of Contents

1. A Call to Action: Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education 2. Designing the Community of Praxis 3. Antiracist Pedagogy for the Art History Classroom 4. Beyond Content: Radical Belonging and Learning as a Community in a Feminist Development Studies Course on Population and the Environment 5. Science Is Objective, Isn’t It? Countering the Effects of Structural Racism in Citation Practices 6. Centering Survivor Voices and Decentering Myself: Teaching Rwanda through an Antiracist Praxis 7. Vulnerability and Listening in Antiracist Teaching: The Sociology of Mental Illness 8. Removing the Invisibility of Whiteness in Literary Studies 9. Training Sustainable Development Practitioners to Interrogate and Dismantle Systemic Racism as a Co-Creative Enterprise 10. Identity in the Making Process: Antiracist Teaching in Graphic Design 11. Community Building and Scaffolded Learning: Antiracist Pedagogy in Theatre Arts 12. There is no socio-political transformation without an epistemic revolution: On democratizing the literature classroom through antiracist pedagogy 13. Sustaining Antiracism Beyond the Praxis Group: A Case in Biology 14. A Reflective Pause