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STEPHEN D. BROOKFIELD is the John Ireland Endowed Chair at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more than forty years, he has taught in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States. A six-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, he’s the author of numerous books on teaching, including The Skillful Teacher, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Teaching for Critical Thinking, and Discussion as a Way of Teaching, all from Jossey-Bass.

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The complete, contemporary guide to teaching anti-racism at college and university, Teaching Race is the authoritative resource of knowledge, techniques, and exercises for instructors seeking to help students unmask and challenge racism. This brilliantly straightforward guidebook shows teachers how to cultivate "brave spaces" in which students examine how racism is learned and practiced. It offers numerous tools, techniques and strategies to move students to an anti-racist identity where they call out bias, recognize microaggressions in themselves and others, and hold communities and institutions accountable for embedded racism.

Teaching about race is emotionally charged and contentious, so college instructors need a dependable resource to help them:

• Facilitate respectful student dialogue on race
• Address how white educators can teach authentically about race
• Guide students to recognize their own biases, identities, and the intersectionality present in seemingly homogenous groups
• Deal with the unexpected missteps every teacher makes when developing anti-racist practice

Under the editorial direction of teaching expert Stephen Brookfield, an outstanding group of contributing teaching and learning specialists share their most effective approaches and activities to engage reluctant students in examining racism.

Keep this convenient reference at your fingertips and it will quickly become the most useful tool in your classroom. Use it as a source of real-world tips, techniques and exercises to bring group discussions to life and address the conflict that often arises. If you need advice about modeling anti-racist behavior or sequencing activities to take students deeper into an analysis of racism, this go-to source has multiple suggestions and activities.

Unless you are actively pushing against racist attitudes and systemic structures, you're passively supporting their existence; so influence tomorrow's leaders today with Teaching Race.

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Tomorrow's leaders are today's college students, and there can be no more important task than teaching them to address issues of racism head on. But bringing to life the enormity and oppressive weight of racism is a complex and daunting task. Emotionally charged discussions quickly escalate, students accuse each other and instructors of racism, and the academic norm of decorous calm is shattered. When your carefully prepared lesson plan has been shredded, you need a resource that provides multiple tools, techniques and suggestions for educating students about the current face of racism.

Led by the award-winning scholar and internationally recognized educator Stephen Brookfield, a diverse group of thought leaders and experienced practitioners show you how to create teachable moments to unmask racism. Teaching Race is packed with specific techniques, ancillary materials, and strategies used to model racial awareness and examine racial identity.

With this dependable guidebook at your fingertips you will learn how to:

• Conduct productive discussions that illustrate racism in everyday life
• Sequence instruction for a deepening examination of white supremacy
• Address conflict in ways that increase students' comfort with ambiguity
• Stop students universalizing their own racial experiences
• Use narrative modeling to illuminate the presence of microaggressions
• Encourage students to uncover their positionality
• Avoid the most common pitfalls of teaching anti-racism

Awaken yourself and your students to the pervasive presence of racism with Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism.