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National Day of Racial Healing Exhibit & Resources

WSU will be observing the National Day of Racial Healing on January 17, 2023 with many events, including an exhibit in Pullman's Terrell Library Atrium. This guide offers a way to view the exhibit and access resources to help with teaching.

About This Page

This page is intended to help generate ideas and provide easy-to-access resources for incorporating racial justice and racial healing into classrooms across disciplines. Use the ideas and links below to create assignments, discussions, or something that fits your needs. If you have any questions about the content or would something to be added, please contact your subject librarian.

Historical/Hidden Figures

Who is a historical figure that has informed or impacted racial healing and justice in your field? Who is a hidden figure, historical or otherwise, that has had an impact in your field but may not be widely recognized?

Agriculture & Land Use

Science

Knowledge Creation in Your Field

How has content knowledge from your field been used (implicitly or explicitly) to create, sustain, or challenge racial inequity? What were the circumstances of those impacts?

Agriculture & Land Use

Science

Professionalism Standards in Your Field

What are the professionalism standards in your field? Why are those the standards, as opposed to some other alternative set of standards? Where did the professional standards come from? Who developed and instituted them and when? In what social context?

Health & Medicine

Science

Representation in Your Field

Where are the demographic equity gaps in your field along lines of race, national origin, gender, etc? Why have those gaps developed and persisted over time? What are organizations or figures in the field doing to address those gaps?

Health & Medicine

Science

Research and Data In Your Field

What can one actually claim based on data? How does greater transparency about the limits of sets of data prevent or reduce inequitable outcomes?

Agriculture

Science

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