Anti-Racist Resources for Instructors, Staff, and Students

Arao, Brian & Clemens, Kristi (2013). “From safe spaces to brave spaces. The art of effective facilitation: Reflections from social justice educators” 135-150 in Ed. Lisa M. Landreman The Art of Effective Facilitation: Reflections from Social Justice Educators Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing

Berlak, Ann (2004) “Confrontation and Pedagogy: Cultural Secrets, Trauma, and Emotion in Antioppressive Pedagogies” Counterpoints, Vol. 240, Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence (2004), 123-144

Buyserie, Beth., Bryson, Rachel and Quistberg, Rachel (2021) "Productive disruptions: Resilient pedagogies that advocate for equity" 37-53 in Thurston, T. N., Lundstrom, K., & González, C. (Eds.), Resilient pedagogy: Practical teaching strategies to overcome distance, disruption, and distraction Logan: Utah State University Press

Gershenson, Seth and Nicholas Papageorge “The Power of Teacher Expectation” Education Next Vol. 8 No 1

Gillespie, Christina Hyer and Kali Thompson (2021) “Women Teachers and the Fight to Be ‘Good Enough’: A Call for a Pedagogy of Authenticity” The Educational Forum, Vol. 85, no. 3, 256–268

Kandaswamy, Priya. (2007) "Beyond Colorblindness and Multiculturalism: Rethinking Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the University Classroom." Radical Teacher, no. 80, 6-11

Kumashiro, Kevin K. (2001) Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield

Kumashiro, Kevin K. (2000) “Toward a theory of anti-oppressive education” Review of Educational research, 70(1), 25-53

McGee, Ebony O. and David Stovall (2015) “Reimagining Critical Race Theory in Education: Mental Health, Healing, and the Pathway to Liberatory Praxis” Educational Theory 19 October 

Ohito, Esther. (2020) “Fleshing out enactments of Whiteness in antiracist pedagogy: snapshot of a White teacher educator’s practice” Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 28(1), 17-36

Ore, Ersula. (2017) “Pushback: A Pedagogy of Care.” Pedagogy, 17.1, 9-33

Simpson, Jennifer S. (2006). “Reaching for justice: The pedagogical politics of agency, race, and change.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 28(1): 67-94

Squire, Dian and Bianca Williams and Frank Tuitt (2018) “Plantation Politics and Neoliberal Racism in Higher Education: A Framework for Reconstructing Anti-Racist Institutions” Teachers College Record Volume 120, 1-20

Yu, Tianlong (2012). “What is it that I don’t know? Learning with white teachers in anti-racist education.” Multicultural Education 19, 47–52

Zembylas, Michalinos “Pedagogies of strategic empathy: navigating through the emotional complexities of anti-racism in higher education” Teaching in Higher Education, 17(2), 113-125

Baker, Courtney (2015) Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Balibar, Étienne and Nahum Chandler Understanding Systemic Racism with Étienne Balibar and Nahum Chandler [video]

Chai, Sookyung “Vero” (2021) “Editing the Archive: Alexandra Bell’s Annotation, Redaction, and Epistemic Resistance in Counternarratives” Art Journal Vol. 80, Issue 2, 54-72

Dark Matter University, Lessons in Anti-Racist Design Pedagogy [video]

Enwezor, Okwui and Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, Mark Nash (2020) Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America London: Phaidon

Huber, Sasha and Faith Mkwesha (2020) “Rethinking Design: A Dialogue on Anti-Racism and Art Activism from a Decolonial Perspective” in Keskinen S., Stoltz P., Mulinari D. (eds) Feminisms in the Nordic Region. Gender and Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Inoue, Asao (2020) “Teaching Antiracist Reading” Journal of College Reading and Learning Vol. 50 Issue 3, 1-23

Jaarsma, Ada S. and Kit Dobson (2020) Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom Alberta: University of Alberta Press

Ohito, Esther (2021) ““I’m Very Hurt”: (Un)justly Reading the Black Female Body as Text in a Racial Literacy Learning Assemblage.” Reading Research Quarterly, 0(0) 1–19

Sharpe, Christina (2016) In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Durham: Duke University Press 

Smith, Zadie (2020) “What Do We Want History To Do To Us?” New York Review of Books, February 27

Ahmed, Sara (2012) On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life Durham, NC: Duke University Press

Brim, Matt (2020) Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University Durham: Duke University Press 

Chico, Tita, Ed. (2021) Antiracism in the Contemporary University Los Angeles Review of Books July 6

The Cite Black Women Podcast [podcast]

Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams, ed. (2019) Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines Berkeley: University of California Press

Dei Sefa, George J. and Mairi McDermott (2014) Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning New York: Springer

Ferguson, Roderick (2012) The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez, and Angela P. Harris, eds. Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012

Gonzalez, Carmen G. (2015) “Women of Color in Academia: Challenging the Presumption of Incompetence” [video]

Ho, Jennifer  (2021) “Anti-Asian racism, Black Lives Matter, and COVID-19” Japan Forum, 33:1, 148-159

Hong, Grace Kyungwon (2008). “‘The Future of Our Worlds’: Black Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge in the University under Globalization” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 8.2, 95-115

Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw [podcast]

Jordan, June (1969) “Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person”

Kelley, Robin DG (2021) “Understanding and Organizing to End Racial Capitalism” [video]

Kishimoto, Kyoko. (2018) “Anti-racist pedagogy: from faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom” Race Ethnicity and Education 21.4, 540-554

Lee, Robert and Tristan Ahtone (2020) Land-grab Universities 

Melaku, Tsedale M., and Angie Beeman. (2020) “Academia Isn’t a Safe Haven for Conversations About Race and Racism” Harvard Business Review June 25

Sudbury, Julia and Margo Okazawa-Rey, Eds. (2009) Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism, and Social Change New York: Routledge

Welton, Anjalé, Devean Owens and Eboni Zamani-Gallaher (2018) “Anti-Racist Change: A Conceptual Framework for Educational Institutions to Take Systemic Action” Teachers College Record Vol.120, 1-22

Wilder, Craig Steven. (2013) Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury

Wynter, Sylvia (1994) “‘No Humans Involved’: An Open Letter to My Colleagues” 

Yang, K. Wayne and Eve Tuck (2012) “Decolonization is not a Metaphor” ​​Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 1-40

Adamson, Bryan (2016) “Thugs, Crooks, and Rebellious Negroes: Racist and Racialized Media Coverage of Michael Brown and the Ferguson Demonstrations,” 32 Harvard Journal of Ethnic and Racial Justice 189 

Bell, Alexandra and Leigh Raiford (2020) Alexandra Bell and Leigh Raiford on Media and Images [video]

Bernard, Emily and Jelani Cobb (2020)  Picturing Black Deaths: A conversation with Professors Emily Bernard and Jelani Cobb Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Columbia University [video]

Chakravartty, Paula and Rachel Kuo, Victoria Grubbs, Charlton McIlwain (2018) "#CommunicationSoWhite" Journal of Communication, Vol. 68, Issue 2, 254–266

Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times “An examination of The Times’ failures on race, our apology and a path forward”

Free Press (2020) "Media 2070: An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations"

George, Alice (2018) “The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened” Smithsonian March 1 

Hall, Stuart. (2018) “The Whites of their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media” in Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Critical Reader Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 

Neason, Alexandria (2021) “On Atonement” Columbia Journalism Review January 28

Lowery, Wesley (2020) “A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists” New York Times 23 June

Race Forward (2015) Race Reporting Guide 

Swarns, Rachel (2021)  Diversity Resources for Journalism Faculty

Syracuse University Guidance for Reporting and Writing About Racism

Baker-Bell, April (2020) “We Been Knowin: Toward an Antiracist Language & Literacy Education” Journal of Language and Literacy Education Vol. 16 Issue, 1-12

Bizzell, Patricia. (1991). “Power, Authority, and Critical Pedagogy” Journal of Basic Writing Vol. 10 No. 2, 54-70

Cedillo, Christina V. (2018) “What Does It Mean to Move?: Race, Disability, and Critical Embodiment Pedagogy” Composition Forum 39, Summer 1-16

Chavez, Felicia Rose (2021) The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom Chicago: Haymarket Books

Condon, Frankie and Vershawn Ashanti Young (2017)  Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication Boulder: University of Colorado Press

Gonzales, Laura and Janine Butler (2020) “Working Toward Social Justice through Multilingualism, Multimodality, and Accessibility in Writing Classrooms” Composition Forum 44, Summer 

Lockett, Alexandra (2019) “Why I call it the academic ghetto: A critical examination of race, place, and writing centers” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, Vol 16, No 2

Inoue, Asao (2012) “Grading contracts: Assessing their effectiveness on differential racial formations” In Asao B. Inoue and Mya Poe (Eds.), Race and Writing Assessment (pp. 79-94). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Inoue, Asao (2019) Chair’s Address, National Council of Teachers of English Conference [video]

Lorde, Audre “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” 

de Roock, Roberto Santiago (2021) “On the material consequences of (digital) literacy: Digital writing with, for, and against racial capitalism” Theory Into Practice, Vol. 60, No. 2, 183–193

Young, Vershawn Ashanti (2016) Making Black Lives Matter in Online Spaces: Lessons for Critical Literacy Education University of Washington Tacoma Symposium on Writing [video]

Benjamin, Ruha (2019) Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code London: Polity

Burkholder, Zoë  (2011) “Can Anthropology Improve Antiracist Education?”Anthropology Now, 3:3, 36-46

Chaudhry, Varun V (2020) “On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism” Signs Spring, 529-536

Collins, Patricia Hill “Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought” Social Problems Vol. 33, No. 6, (Oct. - Dec., 1986), S14-S32

Hage, Ghassan. (2020) "Antiracist Writing" Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment, edited by Carole McGranahan, New York, USA: Duke University Press

Liboiron, Max (2021) Pollution is Colonialism Durham: Duke University Press

Mansbridge, Jane and Aldon Morris, Eds. (2001) Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Matsuda, Mari J (1997) Where Is Your Body? And Other Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law Boston: Beacon Press

Moon, Dreama  & Lisa A. Flores (2000) “Antiracism and the abolition of whiteness: Rhetorical strategies of domination among ‘race traitors,’”Communication Studies, 51:2, 97-115

Wieviorka, Michel (2020) “Metamorphoses of racism, anti-semitism and anti-racism today” in Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms London: Routledge

Asai, David (2020) “Race Matters” Cell 181: 754-757

Cell Editorial Board (2020) “Science has a Racism Problem” June 25 1443-1444

Chaudhary, V. Bala and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (2020) “Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab” PLoS Computational Biology 16(10): 1-9

Dewsbury, Brian (2017) “Context determines strategies for ‘activating’ the inclusive classroom” Journal of Microbiology Biology Education 18:18.3.66

Edwards, Mélise Cognitive Reserve and Racial Privilege in STEM

Gouvea, Julia Svoboda “Antiracism and the Problems with “Achievement Gaps” in STEM Education” CBE Life Sciences Education March 1

McGee, Ebony O. and Danny B. Martin (2011) ‘‘You Would Not Believe What I Have to Go Through to Prove My Intellectual Value!’’ Stereotype Management Among Academically Successful Black Mathematics and Engineering Students” American Educational Research Journal December Vol. 48, No. 6, 1347–1389

McGee, Ebony O. and Lydia Bentley (2017) “The Troubled Success of Black Women in STEM” Cognition and Instruction, 35:4, 265-289

Gewin, Virginia (2020) The time tax put on scientists of colour Nature 24 June

Killpack, Tess L. and Laverne C. Melón (2016) “Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role Do Faculty Play?” CBE: Life Science Education, 15(3): 1-0, 1-9

Soran-Knaphus, Emily, Daiki Hiramori and Elizabeth Litzler (2021) “Antiracist Institutional Transformation Matters: How Can Community Cultural Wealth and Counter-space Processes Illuminate Areas for Change?” ASEE Virtual Annual Conference