Cassie Smith
SB 129, Teacher Anxiety, and Signposting
For educators at public institutions in the state of Alabama, October 1, 2024, is a significant day: SB 129 goes into effect. SB 129...
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OUR MISSION
Attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challenges for professors in the humanities who teach subjects that involve discussions of racial difference. Through our website, we aim to help teacher-scholars discuss race and other charged topics in the college classroom.
Dr. Cassander L. Smith
Dr. Lauren S. Cardon
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Lauren Cardon
Navigating Call-out Culture: Preliminary Work Administrators Can Do
In our current social and political climate, in which many individuals and groups speak truth to power and publicly identify problematic...
Cassie Smith
Inclusive Pedagogy Isn't Color Blind Part 2: The Danger of Over Identification
In the last blog post, Inclusive Pedagogy Isn’t Color Blind Part 1: Why Teacher Subjectivity Matters, Lauren talked about the importance...
Lauren Cardon
Inclusive Pedagogy Isn’t Color Blind Part 1: Why Teacher Subjectivity Matters
In Cassie’s earlier blog post, Navigating Unscripted Moments, she describes a moment in class when she was discussing Harriet Jacobs’...
Cassie Smith
Comfort is Overrated
In my previous blog post, I recounted a situation involving a colleague. During class, this colleague tried to navigate a situation in...
Lauren Cardon
Should I use a trigger warning?
In my previous blog post, I described a student who walked out of my classroom in tears after viewing traumatic content. I referenced...
Lauren Cardon
Engaging Traumatic Content
*Note: portions of this post (the content at the end) are taken from Inclusive College Classrooms: Teaching Methods for Diverse Learners,...
Cassie Smith
When Facts Aren't Facts
I was having coffee with a colleague a few days ago when she shared with me an especially tense moment that occurred in her early...
Lauren Cardon
On "Unintentional" Microaggressions and Apologies
When I discuss the complex, sometimes confusing nature of microaggressions with students, I often begin with an anecdote of when I was...
Cassie Smith
Is Juan a Black Name?
I have the honor and great pleasure of teaching introductory courses in early African American literature at the University of Alabama....
Lauren Cardon
Teaching Interventions: How Much Is Too Much?
I’ve often found myself in classes that require multiple teaching interventions in a single session. Because the literature I teach...
Cassie Smith
How NOT to Respond to Students
Among other things, I teach courses in early American literature. And I am always mindful to approach the literature from a multicultural...
Lauren Cardon
The "Erasing History" Conversation
A few years ago I was teaching George Orwell’s 1984, a novel that always spurs students to make parallels to contemporary politics and...
Lauren Cardon
Priming Students for Discussing Difficult Topics
“I feel like you shouldn’t be offended by that.” “I don’t see why that’s racist. I don’t even see color.” “This essay feels like reverse...
Cassie Smith
Navigating Unscripted Moments
It was Fall 2010. I was fresh out of graduate school, settling into a tenure-track job at a research university in the southern United...
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