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“It is not easy to teach about race in today’s political and social climate. We are university faculty members – one Black, one white – who decided to tackle this topic head on.”
- Professor Bruce Huber, Notre Dame and Professor Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland @academicchatter #academicchatter @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon
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Racism is such a touchy topic that many US educators avoid it – we are college professors who tackled that challenge head on

A history course created amid the upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement invites students to have honest conversations about race. Now in its seventh year, it uses music to build bridges.
The Conversation
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I see Adam Seagrave of Arizona State as author in addition to Stephanie Shonekan. But not Bruce Huber.
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For readers of the preceding post, on a related note, this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August of 2017 is very enlightening:
sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

Seeing White - Scene on Radio

Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing,..
Scene on Radio
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