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