When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms - 3rd Revised edition / Edition 1

by Helen Fox

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433134784
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	04/27/2017
Series:	Higher Ed: Questions about the Purpose(s) of Colleges and Universities , #29
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	262
Sales rank:	336,078
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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.