Teaching Race

When teaching about race, instructors from various backgrounds must acknowledge the challenges surrounding the topic while facilitating the learning of undergraduate and graduate students. This guide presents wisdom from the frontlines of teaching to help all instructors engage more fully and effectively with contentious topics.

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When it comes to teaching about race, journalism and mass communication faculty from various backgrounds must deliver instruction that acknowledges the challenges surrounding the topic while facilitating the learning of undergraduate and graduate students.

Race should be a topic infused across the curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate level in institutions large and small, public and private. This takes a holistic approach with authors from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds at small, mid-size, and large research institutions offering their insights. More than teaching tips, the chapters here offer wisdom grounded in the research of the scholarship of teaching and learning, which allows scholars to both inform their teaching with empirical research and share successful pedagogy with others.