Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism

by Derman-Sparks, Louise; Phillips, Carol Brunson; Hilliard, Asa G., III

• ISBN13: 9780807736371
• ISBN10: 0807736376
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol Brunson Phillips have been teaching anti-racism to adults for over 20 years. Based on their real classroom experience, Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism offers us a guide to the development of anti-racist identity, awareness, and behavior. By integrating methodology and course content descriptions with student writings and analyses of students’ growth, the book highlights the interaction between teaching and learning. Organized chronologically from the first to the last class, the text describes how each session contributed to the students’ fascinating journey from pro-racist consciousness to active anti-racism. This volume is much more than a curriculum guide for implementing anti-racism education with adults. Here, the authors, one White and one African American, also share their experiences—the successes, the failures, the difficulties, and, most important, what they learned from their students.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi	(4)
Asa G. Hilliard, III
Preface	xv	(2)
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(6)
Racism and Anti-Racism	2	(1)
Origins and Evolution of Our Anti-Racism Course	3	(2)
Organization of the Book	5	(1)
A Final Word	6	(1)
PART I A Conceptual Framework for Racism and Anti-Racism	7	(26)
1 The Dynamics of Racism	9	(13)
Institutional, Cultural, and Individual Forms of Racism	10	(1)
The Structural Dynamics of Racism	11	(3)
Ideological Components: Assumptions of Racism	14	(4)
New Faces of Racism	18	(4)
2 The Individual, Racism, and Anti-Racism	22	(11)
Anti-Racism and the Individual	22	(2)
White Racism/White Anti-Racism	24	(1)
People of Color: Pro-Racism/Anti-Racism	25	(3)
The Journey to Anti-Racist Identity	28	(3)
Conclusions	31	(2)
PART II Racism and Human Development: The Class	33	(108)
3 The First Phase: Beginning Explorations of Racism	39	(27)
Teaching Challenges	39	(1)
Activities	40	(4)
Student Responses	44	(20)
Conclusions	64	(2)
4 The Second Phase: Exposing the Contradictions	66	(29)
Teaching Challenges	66	(1)
Activities	67	(14)
Student Responses	81	(12)
Conclusions	93	(2)
5 The Third Phase: Transformation to an Understanding of Self and Society	95	(31)
Teaching Challenges	95	(2)
Activities	97	(10)
Student Responses	107	(17)
Conclusions	124	(2)
6 The Fourth Phase: Anti-Racism as a New Beginning	126	(15)
Teaching Challenges	126	(2)
Activities	128	(3)
Student Responses	131	(7)
Conclusion	138	(3)
PART III How to Adapt the Course	141	(18)
7 Making the Course Your Own	143	(16)
Reflections on Teaching	143	(5)
Continuing Self-Education	148	(3)
Participating in Anti-Racist Activity	151	(1)
Adapting the Course to Different Settings	152	(6)
The Choice to Act as the Mission of Living	158	(1)
References	159	(4)
Index	163	(6)
About the Authors	169