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Anti-Racist Teaching Practices

Getting Involved

"When engaging in anti-racist pedagogy, one important step is to work with students to identify 'everyday things [they] can do'"                                                                                                                      -Kyoko Kishimoto (2016)

How to Get Involved

 

Possible ways to approach this guide and resources on an individual level:

  1. Become aware of (un)conscious bias and personal positionality, as this is the first step towards changing and shifting one’s perspective.
  2. Engage in  a personal  process of interrogating your own values and beliefs: what is your vision of the “ideal” student? What biases might you carry? 
  3. Listen to relevant podcasts (e.g. Seeing White Podcast).
  4. Read relevant literature (e.g. repositories - The Black Hair Syllabus; books - How to Be An Antiracist (Ibram Kendi); articles - Goings, R. B. (2021). Introducing the Black Male Adult Learner Success Theory.
  5. Join a Book club that addresses topics outside of your comfort zone and will expose you to different perspectives
  6. Explore relevant websites (e.g. Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2020). 
  7. Connect with local groups like Courageous Conversation and UMBC groups to share and make connections with their in-class discussions and self-reflections.

 

Ideas for implementing these resources on an institutional level: 

  1. Share within our departments to start a conversation and raise awareness.
  2. Share with coordinators of new faculty orientation to promote adoption of effective anti-racist strategies at early career stages.

  3. Propose the creation of a center to promote these strategies as a portfolio of resources as well as the development of more advanced and modern techniques.

 

Consider participating in Maryland-specific groups that advance antiracism, such as the following: