Guides and Resources
Strategies and encouragement for making our classes more inclusive, and suggested reading from faculty and staff for teaching and personal growth.
Inclusive Teaching Guides
Recommended Reading
- How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Our local YWCA
- bell hooks - Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Critical Thinking, and Teaching Community, Writing Beyond Race.
- Anti-racism resources, directed toward white people
- Teaching Toleranceclassroom resources
- Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future
- Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication
- TED talks to help you understand racism in America
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- The moving walkway metaphor for antiracism(1 paragraph from Beverly Daniel Tatum from "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?")
- Your kids aren't too young to talk about race
- How Higher Ed Can Fight Racism: ‘Speak Up When It’s Hard’
- Author Interview With Dr. Gholdy Muhammad- an overview of "Historically Responsive Literacy" model
- To Be Welcoming- a 15 course anti-bias curriculum from Starbucks and ASU.
- What it means to be anti-racist, a VOX article and excellent place to begin.
- 10 Documentaries to watch about Race instead of asking a person of color to explain things for you.
- Scoffolded set of activities and readings for movement through stages of understanding white identity.Manee points out that at the end, there are anti-racist self-assessments for faculty and students that might be useful to you.
- From Renee Harris: Demystifying the Safe Space: How to Create a Classroom Ecosystem that Supports Meaningful Race Conversations.
- From Rachel and Marlowe: Working for Justice, Equity and Civic Agency in Our Schools: A Conversation with Clint Smith
- From Erin Cassetto: Resmaa Menakem ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’ - from NPR's On-Being