As students return to the classroom, both virtually and in-person, it is important to be prepared to recognize and address racism when it happens. These articles provide advice on how to respond to racism in the classroom.
In Pushing Back Against Racism and Xenophobia on Campuses, MarYam Hamedani, Hazel Rose Markus, and Paula Moya discuss five ways college instructors can have effective conversations about race, including use the language of "doing," learn to perceive how race and racism operate in society, know the history of race and understand how it influences the present, acknowledge that all people "do race," and recognize people have the power to "undo racism."
This next article, Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice by Amie Thurber, M. Brielle Harbin, and Joe Brandy, also, contains five ways for college faculty to use to best teach racism in the classroom. Their principles are to encourage reflexivity, prepare for and welcome difficulty, meet students where they are, engage affective and embodied dimensions of learning, and build a learning community.
Tyrone Fleurizard provides advice for reducing discriminatory actions in the classroom in his article 3 Approaches for Confronting Microaggressions. He recommends using the syllabus to create the classroom culture, use microaffirmations, and to address microaggressions when they happen.
In Responding to Microaggressions in the Classroom: Taking ACTION, author Tasha Souza explains how the acronym ACTION can be a guide when facing microaggressions in the classroom.