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Anti-Racist Pedagogy - Resources for Inclusive Teaching

A collection of resources designed to empower educators from all disciplines in their journey towards fostering an inclusive and antiracist classroom environment.

Open Access Resources

Instructional Strategies 

How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive

An advice guide published in The Chronicle of Higher Ed that offers an outline of the key principles of inclusive teaching, tips for interacting inclusively with students, and ideas for inclusive course design.

Open Resources for Student-Centered & Adaptive Strategies in the New Higher-Ed Landscape 

Offers practical and engaging advice about what "next" should look like across higher education, from sixteen current and forthcoming authors in the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education book series from West Virginia University Press.

Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Action: First Steps

A point of entry for instructors from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines, identity positions, and levels of teaching experience who wish to engage in this work. The strategies, summaries, and additional links provide instructors with a theoretical framework upon which to make meaningful, intentional choices in their classrooms.  Created by Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning 

The AntiRacist Discussion Pedagogy

An introductory guide to building an anti-racist pedagogy in any discipline through instructor reflection, clear communication guidelines, and inquiry-based discussion.

RaceWorks Toolkit

A resource from Standford University designed to help educators and instructors teach racial literacy within and beyond the classroom.

Racial Equity Tools

Offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.

Talking about Race

Tools for talking about race from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Lesson Plans and Assignments

Resources for Teaching About Race and Racism With The New York Times

A curated collection of over 75 lesson plans, writing prompts, short films and graphs relating to racism and racial justice.

Learn and create for social justice - Adobe Education Exchange 

Adobe has numerous multimodal assignment examples that incorporate social justice issues.

The Game Metaphor: How To Teach Racists That There Is No Such Thing As Reverse Racism

A thought experiment for helping students understand racism.

Diversity and Inclusion Resource Modules

Lesson plans and assignment examples for multiple disciplines including Political Science, History, Social Sciences, Ethnic Studies, Communication Studies, Psychology and Child Development, Art and Design, and English. 

Antiracist Teaching & Learning Collective

Lesson plans and assignment examples for both STEM and Humanities classes.

Conducting Research Through an Anti-Racist Lens

Finding Diverse Voices in Academic Research - George Mason University

Strategies and resources on searching for and highlighting diverse voices in scholarship.

Conducting research through an anti-racism lens - University of Minnesota 

A guide for students, staff, and faculty who are incorporating an anti-racist lens at all stages of the research life cycle.

Books

Book cover - Inclusive Teaching
Book cover -Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice
Book cover - Leading Equity
Book cover - Teaching with Tension
Book cover - Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning
Book cover - Courageous Conversations about Race
Book cover - Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence
Book cover - Deconstructing Privilege
Book cover - Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism
Book cover - Intersectional Pedagogy
Book cover - Race and Higher Education
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Book cover - Speaking Out Against Racism in the University Space
Book cover - Antiracism Inc
Book cover - Confronting Equity and Inclusion Incidents on Campus
Book cover - Making Sense of Race in Education
cover - Despite the Best Intentions
cover of Charleston Syllabus
book cover - Through the Fog
cover art - Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies for Higher Education
The Activist Academic
book cover - Reclaiming Personalized Learning
cover art - Breaking down Silos for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)
cover art - Teaching about Diversity
cover art - Teaching and Race
cover art - Inclusive College Classrooms

eBooks

Book cover - Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism
Book cover -
Book cover - On Being Included
Book cover - Promoting Ethnic Diversity and Multiculturalism in Higher Education
cover Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom
Book cover - What Inclusive Instructors Do
Book cover - Teaching Race in Perilous Times
Book cover - Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education
Book cover - Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Book cover - Difficult Subjects

Journal Articles

Blakeney, A. M. (2005). Antiracist pedagogy: Definition, theory, and professional development. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2(1), 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2005.10411532

Castillo-Montoya, M., Abreu, J., & Abad, A. (2019). Racially liberatory pedagogy: a Black Lives Matter approach to education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(9), 1125-1145. doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2019.1645904

Cole, C. E. (2017). Culturally sustaining pedagogy in higher education: teaching so that Black Lives Matter. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 36(8), 736-750. doi.org/10.1108/EDI-01-2017-0005

Correa, E., & Wilkinson, C. (2017). Breaking the silence: Teaching about difference. Journal for Multicultural Education, 11(2), 70-81. doi.org/10.1108/JME-10-2016-0056

Eisen, D. B. (2020). Combating the “Too Sensitive” Argument: A demonstration that captures the complexity of microaggressions. Teaching Sociology. doi.org/10.1177/0092055X20930338

Fuentes, M. A., Zelaya, D. G., & Madsen, J. W. (2020). Rethinking the course syllabus: Considerations for promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion. Teaching of Psychology, 48(1), 69-79. doi.org/10.1177/0092055X20930338

Haynes, C., & Bazner, K. J. (2019). A message for faculty from the present-day movement for black lives. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(9), 1146-1161. doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2019.1645909

Kishimoto, K. (2018). Anti-racist pedagogy: From faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 21(4), 540-554. doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2016.1248824

Patton, L. D., & Haynes, C. (2020). Dear white people: Reimagining whiteness in the struggle for racial equity. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 52(2), 41-45. doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2020.1732775

Reddick, R. J. (2018). Race, equity, and the learning environment: The global relevance of critical and inclusive pedagogies in higher education. eds. by Frank Tuitt, Chayla Haynes, and Saran Stewart. The Review of Higher Education, 41(3), 493-496. doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2018.0021

Smith, L., Kashubeck-West, S., Payton, G., & Adams, E. (2017). White professors teaching about racism: Challenges and rewards. The Counseling Psychologist, 45(5), 651-668. doi.org/10.1177/0011000017717705

Taylor, S. D., Veri, M. J., Eliason, M., Hermoso, J. C. R., Bolter, N. D., & Van Olphen, J. E. (2019). The social justice syllabus design tool: A first step in doing social justice pedagogy. JCSCORE, 5(2), 132-166. doi.org/10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2019.5.2.132-166

Tuitt, F., Haynes, C., & Stewart, S. (2018). Transforming the classroom at traditionally white institutions to make Black Lives Matter. To Improve the Academy, 37(1), 63-76. doi.org/10.1002/tia2.20071