Politics and the Humanities

Amna Khalid on How Not to Teach Anti-Racism


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What's working and what's not working in efforts to teach antiracism on college campuses today? Amna Khalid, the author of a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "How Students Are Furthering Academe's Corporatization," joins Tom and Sarah to discuss pitfalls and dangers in some recent approaches to antiracism on college campuses. Are corporate training models displacing university classes? Can liberal education offer a path forward for colleges and universities who want to get their students to talk about race without falling into a training model? Can colleges and universities flourish without getting faculty more involved than they have been?

Amna Khalid's essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Amna's website, with other essays of interest.

Amna's book recommendation: Walter Benn Michael's The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned To Love Identity and Ignore Inequality.

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Politics and the HumanitiesBy Thomas Merrill