In
the
Classroom
Racism in the Classroom: Insights from Students, pamphlet co-produced with Melanie Mala Ghosh and in conjunction with the Bates College Committee on Teaching Development, the Multicultural Center, Adam Gaynor, and Rochanda Jackson. Lewiston, ME 1996. (Copy available on request.)
While this pamphlet came out a decade ago and the material is campus-specific and a bit out of date (although sadly, not out of date enough and in some ways out of date for the worse), so that the scope of its current usefulness may be limited, I include mention of it because I think it was created based on a good collaborative model and the principle that worked to avoid condescending practices of speaking for others or assuming that expertise travels one path from teacher to student. We conducted some open meetings for students interested in sharing experiences with racism at Bates, and then several activist students, compensated with for course credit and/or pay, conducted and transcribed interviews. The pamphlet, intended as a tool for faculty development, emerged from that work.