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Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America

Adding Context to Colorblindness

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Editors:
  1. Kristin Haltinner

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA

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  • Innovative classroom activities and curriculum design, tested by renowned college and university instructors
  • Features thoughtful reflections on teaching about race and racism by pioneers in the field
  • Addresses dealing with student emotions and cultural resistance regarding discussions on race ?

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching About Race and Anti-Racism in the Twenty-First Century

    • Kristin Haltinner
    Pages 1-7

  5. Connecting with Students

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. After Colorblindness: Teaching Antiracism to White Progressives in the U.S.

      • Jonathan Warren
      Pages 109-121

    3. Double Consciousness: Faculty of Color Teaching Students of Color About Race

      • Enid Logan, Stayce Blount, Louis Mendoza, Chavella Pittman, Rashawn Ray, Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
      Pages 123-139

    4. Bringing Students into the Matrix: A Framework and Tools for Teaching Race and Overcoming Student Resistance

      • Abby Ferber
      Pages 141-155

  6. Innovative Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Transformatory, Community Based Teaching About Race

      • Rose M. Brewer
      Pages 159-169
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About this book

This book presents thoughtful reflections and in-depth, critical analyses of the new challenges and opportunities instructors face in teaching race during what has been called the “post-racial era”. It examines the racial dimensions of the current political, economic, and cultural climate. The book features renowned scholars and experienced teachers from a range of disciplines and offers successful strategies for teaching important concepts through case studies and active learning exercises. It provides innovative strategies, novel lesson plans and classroom activities for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about race and racism to today’s students.  A valuable handbook for educators, this book should be required reading for all graduate students and college instructors. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA

    Kristin Haltinner

About the editor

Kristin Haltinner is a graduate student and instructor at the University of Minnesota where she teaches courses on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social justice. She also works as an adjunct instructor at Century College and St. Catherine University, teaching courses on contemporary social problems. Her work centers on social justice including the ways in which race, gender, sexuality and class inform and shape (or are shaped by) social movements. She has several projects under review at Sociological journals or in development including “Dissention on the Right: Gender in the Minuteman Civil Defence Corps” and “Rehab’s Dysfunctional Family: Challenges of Race in Drug Rehabilitation Centers” (with Dr. Teresa Gowan). Her dissertation is on the construction of race, gender, class and sexuality in right wing social movements and is expected to be completed by December 2012. She also has a published book chapter entitled Vigilante Groups in Battleground: Immigration. Edited by Judith Warner. (Greenwood Press. 2010). Kristin also is involved with various community groups including the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Solidarity in Health, and Scholars for Academic Justice.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America

  • Book Subtitle: Adding Context to Colorblindness

  • Editors: Kristin Haltinner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7101-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7100-0Published: 28 October 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0018-2Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7101-7Published: 16 October 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 453

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Cultural Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education

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