1st Edition

Towards a Community of Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education Transformative Principles, Practices, and Resources for the Classroom

Edited By Jie Y. Park, Laurie Ross Copyright 2026
258 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Weaving together theory, research, and practice, this edited volume provides rich accounts of teaching from faculty at a predominantly white institution who participated in a community of antiracist praxis – a cycle of action and reflection on pedagogy. The chapters highlight the ways in which faculty can transform classrooms and colorblind discourses in higher education. They center the voices... Read more

Chapter 1:  A Call to Action: Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education (Jie Y. Park & Laurie Ross).

 

Chapter 2:       Designing the Community of Praxis (Jie Y. Park, Nancy Budwig, & Laurie Ross).

 

Chapter 3:       Antiracist Pedagogy for the Art History Classroom (Kristina Wilson).

 

Chapter 4:       Beyond Content: Radical Belonging and Learning as a Community in a Feminist Development Studies Course on Population and the Environment (Ellen E. Foley).

 

Chapter 5:       Science Is Objective, Isn’t It? Countering the Effects of Structural Racism in Citation Practices (Néva P. Meyer).

 

Chapter 6:       Centering Survivor Voices and Decentering Myself: Teaching Rwanda through an Antiracist Praxis (Christopher P. Davey).

 

Chapter 7:       Vulnerability and Listening in Antiracist Teaching: The Sociology of Mental Illness (Deborah M. Merrill).

 

Chapter 8:       Removing the Invisibility of Whiteness in Literary Studies (Kourtney Senquiz).

 

Chapter 9:       Training Sustainable Development Practitioners to Interrogate and Dismantle Systemic Racism as a Co-Creative Enterprise (Timothy J. Downs).

 

Chapter 10:     Identity in the Making Process: Antiracist Teaching in Graphic Design (Sherry Freyermuth).

 

Chapter 11:     Community Building and Scaffolded Learning: Antiracist Pedagogy in Theatre  Arts (Jessie Darrell-Jarbadan)

 

Chapter 12:     There is no socio-political transformation without an epistemic revolution: On democratizing the literature classroom through antiracist pedagogy (Odile Ferly).

 

Chapter 13:     Sustaining Antiracism Beyond the Praxis Group: A Case in Biology (Elizabeth Bone, Néva P. Meyer, Jie Y. Park, Hayley Haywood).

 

Chapter 14:     A Reflective Pause (Jie Y. Park & Laurie Ross). 

Biography

Jie Y. Park is Associate Professor of Education at Clark University, USA.

Laurie Ross is Professor of Community Development and Planning at Clark University, USA