A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity
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©2018, 300 pages
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A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity is a hands-on guide for teachers, students, and agency professionals seeking to respond skillfully and sensitively to the often daunting challenges of classrooms, as students demand both answers and accountability concerning issues of race, power, privilege, and oppression and the emotional responses they provoke.
The guide includes suggestions to implement before entering the classroom, so that the necessary personal, community, and institutional infrastructure can support authentic, sustainable conversations. It discusses how educators can respond appropriately in the classroom to the hot-button issues of the day. There are also lessons for critical pedagogy and management that help educators reimagine classrooms and learn to create mutually supportive learning environments.
Written by four experienced anti-racist educators and practitioners, the book takes a direct, compassionate approach designed to diminish dogma and fear. By examining how socially different people respond to the same difficult questions, A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity creates a rich set of options for readers to use in their own classrooms, agencies, and field placements.
The guide includes suggestions to implement before entering the classroom, so that the necessary personal, community, and institutional infrastructure can support authentic, sustainable conversations. It discusses how educators can respond appropriately in the classroom to the hot-button issues of the day. There are also lessons for critical pedagogy and management that help educators reimagine classrooms and learn to create mutually supportive learning environments.
Written by four experienced anti-racist educators and practitioners, the book takes a direct, compassionate approach designed to diminish dogma and fear. By examining how socially different people respond to the same difficult questions, A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity creates a rich set of options for readers to use in their own classrooms, agencies, and field placements.
Steve Burghardt, M.S.W., Ph.D. is a professor of social work at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College-CUNY. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and over ten books. He is an eight-time teaching award winner, including the co-winning of the CSWE-Sage national award for innovative teaching. His activism began as a student organizer in the sixties; decades later, he was deeply involved with Occupy Wall Street and more recently as a leader in the Age Justice movement. His work as a consultant, trainer, and executive coach in the public and nonprofit sectors led him to a deep appreciation and respect for the committed work of frontline, as well as executive, staff for their unyielding commitments to those with whom they work—especially the poor, marginalized, and oppressed.
Kalima DeSuze, L.M.S.W., is an adjunct professor at Hunter College-CUNY, Smith College, and Columbia Schools of Social Work. She serves as an assistant director of the Hunter College-CUNY Field Education Department.
Mohan Vinjamuri, L.M.S.W., Ph.D., is an assistant professor of social work at Lehman College-CUNY where he teaches courses on practice, research, and social work with LGBTQ communities.
Linda Lausell Bryant, M.S.W., Ph.D., has worked as the executive director of a nonprofit youth agency and is now the executive-in-residence and clinical assistant professor of social work at New York University.
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"When I was looking for resources to help our faculty begin the work of addressing issues of race and racism, a colleague recommended Sustaining Conversations on Racism. Our committee was drawn to this work because we did not just want a one-and-done training, but rather to sustain these conversations over time in hopes that they would facilitate long-term change. As a faculty, we are using this book as a guide to have difficult conversations. This book and the authors of this book helped us begin this process of looking internally at how we can begin dismantling systems of oppression. We have a long way to go, but we are grateful for this book and the authors who started us on this journey."
Joan Blakely, MSW, Ph.D., LMSW, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor, Faculty Affiliate - Africana Studies, Tulane University
"Now more than ever, A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Race, Identity and Our Mutual Humanity is an essential text for all faculty who wish to push past the boundaries of polite and surface discussions about race and oppression in their classrooms. The authors’ authentic conversations about their own identities and classroom experiences are both instructive and inspiring. The book has become my go-to resource for my own teaching, for examination of my own identity, and for the creation of brave learning spaces for deep connection and shared humanity. Whether a new or seasoned instructor, you will keep it close at hand and return to it often."
Susan Gerbino, PhD, LCSW, Clinical Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work
"A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity is a resource that every social work department needs. There is no greater time than now to have a guide to help social work educators lean into our own vulnerability as a first step in change work. These conversations are necessary among faculty colleagues and in the classroom with our students, with the ultimate goal of training future social workers who not only feel comfortable engaging in challenging conversations, but also with initiating them."
Kyle H. O’Brien, PhD, DHSc, MSW, MSOT, LCSW, OTR/L, Health Science (BHSc) Program Co-Director | Department of Health and Movement Sciences Associate Professor | Department of Social Work, Southern Connecticut State University
A timely contribution, this book should be on the shelves of student affairs practitioners. It challenges us to re-envision how we model constructive dialogue on college campuses. A must read for anyone interested in fostering critical understanding across difference in educational settings.
Valerie De Cruz, Director of the Greenfield Intercultural Center, University of Pennsylvania
Joan Blakely, MSW, Ph.D., LMSW, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor, Faculty Affiliate - Africana Studies, Tulane University
"Now more than ever, A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Race, Identity and Our Mutual Humanity is an essential text for all faculty who wish to push past the boundaries of polite and surface discussions about race and oppression in their classrooms. The authors’ authentic conversations about their own identities and classroom experiences are both instructive and inspiring. The book has become my go-to resource for my own teaching, for examination of my own identity, and for the creation of brave learning spaces for deep connection and shared humanity. Whether a new or seasoned instructor, you will keep it close at hand and return to it often."
Susan Gerbino, PhD, LCSW, Clinical Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work
"A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity is a resource that every social work department needs. There is no greater time than now to have a guide to help social work educators lean into our own vulnerability as a first step in change work. These conversations are necessary among faculty colleagues and in the classroom with our students, with the ultimate goal of training future social workers who not only feel comfortable engaging in challenging conversations, but also with initiating them."
Kyle H. O’Brien, PhD, DHSc, MSW, MSOT, LCSW, OTR/L, Health Science (BHSc) Program Co-Director | Department of Health and Movement Sciences Associate Professor | Department of Social Work, Southern Connecticut State University
A timely contribution, this book should be on the shelves of student affairs practitioners. It challenges us to re-envision how we model constructive dialogue on college campuses. A must read for anyone interested in fostering critical understanding across difference in educational settings.
Valerie De Cruz, Director of the Greenfield Intercultural Center, University of Pennsylvania
Watch a recording of “How Discussions of Racism and Other Social Issues Can Enhance Classroom Learning,” a webinar hosted by Steve Burghardt, Linda Lausell Bryant, and Mohan Vinjamuri.
Listen to the “Sustaining Conversations about Racism” episode of the Cultural Humility Podcast, in which Dr. Miguel Gallardo interviews Steve Burghardt about A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity and the role white communities and communities of color have in conversations about racism.
Listen to the “Sustaining Conversations about Racism” episode of the Cultural Humility Podcast, in which Dr. Miguel Gallardo interviews Steve Burghardt about A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity, and our Mutual Humanity and the role white communities and communities of color have in conversations about racism.
