Racial Justice Resource List

26 short New York Times documentaries that range in time from 1 to 7 minutes and tackle issues of race, bias and identity.

This guide summarizes some of the common challenges instructors may encounter and offers five broad pedagogical principles for teaching racial justice, and three possible strategies for implementing each strategy in the classroom.

This handbook is written by faculty for faculty. While the resources in this handbook can be used on their own, they are meant to be part of the faculty mini-course: Facilitating Difficult Conversations in the Classroom.

Teaching about race, racism and multiculturalism is challenging for all instructors. This paper identifies and explores particular challenges for white educators teaching this material. Strategies are offered to help white instructors to constructively meet these challenges and create meaningful learning environments for all students.

Perceptions and reactions of White faculty to classroom dialogues on race are explored in this research paper. Among the major obstacles found to interfere with teaching competence were fears of revealing personal biases and prejudices, losing classroom control, inability to understand or recognize the causes or dynamics of difficult dialogues, and lack of knowledge and skills to properly intervene.

This recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed shares experts’ advice on how to mitigate learning challenges brought on by stress. It includes further resources on trauma-informed teaching during COVID-19 and the political, social and economic turmoil of today, and reader-recommended books on how to teach online.

In this recent article Mays Imad explores seven ways professors can help students thrive in class in times of trauma.

Scholars must help inform the creation and implementation of policies that protect black communities from racial profiling and end police killings of unarmed black people, writes Shaun R. Harper.

This article addresses how academe can meet the most pressing problems of the moment: the disproportionate toll that Covid-19 is taking on black and Latina/o Americans, as well as harsh policing in black and brown communities.

An immersing first-hand account about racism in the academy published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, adapted from Dr. George Yancy's book, Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America.

The article focuses on the need for solutions to improve equity in higher education for underserved populations. It discusses the Institute for Higher Education Policy's (IHEP) efforts in attempting to close equity gaps, increase in the racial and ethnic groups taking to higher education lately, the importance of the three terms equity, diversity and equality.

The article discusses the leadership role of faculty in developing inclusive classrooms and educational environments across higher education in the U.S. amid the increasing racial and ethnic diversity among college students. Topics include the expected increase in minority enrollment at postsecondary institutions in the U.S. between 2009 and 2020, the requirement for the universities' crucial role in addressing this diversity and an introduction to other related articles within the issue.