Practicing Antiracism: Being Accountable to Each Other in Academia and Beyond
What can instructors do right now to advance the cause of Black liberation?
The Future is Another Country
What can instructors do right now to advance the cause of Black liberation?
A coalition of adjuncts shares lessons from revolutionary campus work.
The pandemic offers an opportunity to return to collaborative models of instruction and reject regimes of academic surveillance that have long harmed disabled and marginalized students.
The shift to online and distance pandemic learning comes amid a larger push to rethink the boundaries of embodied performance in dance.
There is so much learning and unlearning to do and teaching dance is one of my entry points into anti-racist work.
As we write catalog entries to gather these artifacts into an exhibit and then interpret the connections that will emerge in exhibition guide essays, we hope to raise questions for the audience, to allow those who are disabled to see themselves in the story.
One of the major purposes of the humanities is to expose students to new points of view, especially the views of minorities and other disadvantaged groups whose voices are often neglected. The Civil War Era is a particularly useful period for such considerations, as it prominently featured racial division that continue today.
My grandmother was right; my high school students needed me. What my grandmother may not have anticipated though was the extent to which I needed my students.
This assignment provided a great teaching moment to engage students in a critical analysis of the norms and expectations shaping what “traditional” means.