Sustainability and Social Justice

A Call to Action: Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education

Document Type

Book Chapter

Abstract

This chapter describes the origin, institutional context, and faculty participants of the antiracist praxis group. It conceptualizes antiracist pedagogy as an approach to teaching and learning that challenges ways of knowing that are colorblind, highlights the situatedness of teachers and students, and works to build more horizontal relationships between faculty and students. Finally, it argues that faculty development and building an antiracist teaching practice can best happen in a community with not only supportive colleagues but equity-centric documentation and reflection protocols. At the heart of this edited volume are rich accounts of antiracism in action – or the action plans designed and implemented by faculty across disciplinary and interdisciplinary settings. The last section of the chapter offers a general overview of the action plans, categorizing them by their goal and the pedagogical practice(s) supporting that goal. © 2026 selection and editorial matter, Jie Y. Park and Laurie Ross; individual chapters, the contributors.

Publication Title

Towards a Community of Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education: Transformative Principles, Practices, and Resources for the Classroom

Publication Date

1-2025

First Page

1

Last Page

17

ISBN

9781040418444

DOI

10.4324/9781003472087-1

Keywords

antiracism, teaching, curricula, higher education

Cross Post Location

Education

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