Emerson College Library: Teach-in on Race 2023: Session 3: Naming the Invisible

Session 3: Naming the Invisible: Deconstructing What Really Happens When We Talk and Teach about Race… and What Happens When We Don’t

Thursday, October 28, 4:00pm-5:30pm

Description: In this session, participants will use embodied learning strategies to dialogue, express, connect, and co-construct meaning together. Using an inquiry-oriented approach to teaching, we will make use of several creative teaching strategies in sequence to unpack and discuss race, equity, power, and justice as it manifests in the university classroom. Come ready to explore, play, learn, and listen! This session is limited to 25 faculty members.

Presenter:

Joshua Streeter, Assistant Professor, Emerson College

Location

Room 517, Paramount Building
55 Washington St, Boston, MA 02116

Open to Emerson Faculty Only, Limited Capacity
Pre-registration Required: https://forms.gle/2WMSJR9WNCqNLeo89

Spark Prompts

Spark Prompts are a tool to generate curiosity and interest in this year's Teach-In on Race sessions. The presenters have generated the following prompts as a way to spark dialogue while also inviting attendees to deepen their learning by reflecting on the sessions themselves.

Spark Prompt(s)

Journal for 5-10 minutes on "Power" - consider who has power (in general), how power is maintained (in the world), what power you do/don't have in the classroom, and the positional power you hold at Emerson.

Books and Media @ Emerson

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop
\The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering classroom communities. It's more urgent than ever that we consciously work against traditions of dominance in the classroom, but what specific actions can we take to achieve authentically inclusive communities? For anyone looking to liberate their thinking from "the way it's always been done, "The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a clear, compelling guidebook on a necessary step forward.
Teaching Race
The need to educate students about race and racism is felt acutely across higher education. Yet, in those colleges and universities that are predominantly White little exists in the way of practical guidance on how to go about this task. This book addresses some of the most common questions that teachers raise about how to teach students racial awareness at predominantly White institutions. This book will focus on practical tips, tools and techniques that teachers can use in their own teaching.