Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach

by Louise Derman-Sparks, Asa G. Hilliard III (Foreword), Carol Brunson Phillips

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. Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism provides both a "how-to" and a conceptual framework to help teachers and trainers adapt anti-racism education for their programs.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Race

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Drick · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this was written in 1997, it is a useful guide for how to engage learners in formal and informal class room settings. Written by and for college professors, it offers practical insights in how to engage students in meaningful discussions and reflections on the nature of racism in their lives and in s ociety at large. I read this book as part of a training for Roots of Justice, a faith-based organization who offers workshops for individuals seeking to dismantle racism in our society.

[Sherrice Mojgani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anyone engaged in Anti Racist education including self education should read this book