As I prepare to submit a proposal for a panel on Challenging Racism in Higher Education (the title of a text I began reading during this year's NCTE conference) things start falling into place. I will be capturing them here.
Mapping Racist Tweets It is a useful reminder that technology reflects the society in which it is based, both the good and the bad. Information space is not divorced from everyday life and racism extends into the geoweb and helps shape its contours...Matthew Zook et al, Floatingsheep.org A slide show of the Top 10 N-word Controversies of the Decade | Dismantling the Core To reach the core problems of society and effect real social change, student movements must not only protest issues, but they must also acknowledge and attack the system of racism and white privilege that underlies these issues and often the movements themselves. |
Anti-oppression Through a Post-modern Lens:
Dismantling the Master’s Conceptual Tools in Discursive Social Work Practice explores "three modernist practices of power which may limit anti-oppression discourse" (Brown 2012).
Working Through The Challenges of Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Murdoch University produced an annotated bibliography of effective anti-racism strategies
Freedom Fighter lists 17 points with which to invite discussion on the reality of privilege
St. Cloud University's Anti-Racism Across the Curriculum Workshop 2013
Seattle's Young People's Project offers resources for those who would EDUCATE 2 LIBERATE
Working Through The Challenges of Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Murdoch University produced an annotated bibliography of effective anti-racism strategies
Freedom Fighter lists 17 points with which to invite discussion on the reality of privilege
St. Cloud University's Anti-Racism Across the Curriculum Workshop 2013
Seattle's Young People's Project offers resources for those who would EDUCATE 2 LIBERATE