Teaching with Tension

Race, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom
Drawing together personal reflection, pedagogical strategies, and critical theory, this book offers concrete examinations to foster student learning. The essays are organized into three thematic sections: “Teaching in Times and Places of Struggle”, “Teaching in the Neoliberal University” and “Teaching How to Read Race and (Counter)Narratives”.
Teaching with Tension is a collection of seventeen original essays that address the extent to which attitudes about race, impacted by the current political moment in the United States, have produced pedagogical challenges for professors in the humanities. As a flashpoint, this current political moment is defined by the visibility of the country's first black president, the election of his successor, whose presidency has been associated with an increased visibility of the alt-right, and the emergence of the neoliberal university. Together these social currents shape the tensions with which we teach.

Drawing together personal reflection, pedagogical strategies, and critical theory, Teaching with Tension offers concrete examinations that will foster student learning. The essays are organized into three thematic sections: ""Teaching in Times and Places of Struggle"" examines the dynamics of teaching race during the current moment, marked by neoconservative politics and twenty-first century freedom struggles. ""Teaching in the Neoliberal University"" focuses on how pressures and exigencies of neoliberalism (such as individualism, customer-service models of education, and online courses) impact the way in which race is taught and conceptualized in college classes. The final section, ""Teaching How to Read Race and (Counter)Narratives,"" homes in on direct strategies used to historicize race in classrooms comprised of millennials who grapple with race neutral ideologies. Taken together, these sections and their constitutive essays offer rich and fruitful insight into the complex dynamics of contemporary race and ethnic studies education.

Contributor: Lee Bebout (Edited by), Cassander L. Smith (Edited by), Philathia Bolton (Edited by), Corinne Wohlford (Contributions by), Anita Huizar-Hernandez (Contributions by), Briana Whiteside (Contributions by), Marguerite Wilson (Contributions by), Marcia Nichols (Contributions by), Jennifer Wacek (Contributions by), Carmen Lugo-Lugo (Contributions by), Umme Al-wazedi (Contributions by), Jungah Kim (Contributions by), Magdalena Barrera (Contributions by), Travis Franks (Contributions by), Kyle Mitchell (Contributions by), John Streamas (Contributions by), Dan Colson (Contributions by), Drew Lopenzina (Contributions by)

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