Setting the table -- Leaning into difficult conversations -- Where and how to have the conversation -- Covid-19 pandemic : masks, vaccines, freedom, and sacrifices -- Immigration and xenophobia -- White supremacy in academia -- Black Lives Matter -- Police reform and the defund the police movement -- Women's rights -- Reproductive rights and abortion -- LGBTQ+ sexuality & gender -- Antisemitism -- Disability rights and access -- Cancel culture -- Firearms and the Second Amendment.
Summary:
"How to Engage in Difficult Conversations on Identity, Race, and Politics in Higher Education addresses the polarized political and racialized climate in America today. This practical resource offers faculty and staff much needed direction related to hosting difficult conversations as they occur in the classroom, residence halls, orientation events, and coffee shops around college and university campuses. Chapters provide insights, case examples, interactive exercises, and "how-to" tools and tips to having these conversations, covering issues about immigration, white supremacy in academia, women's rights, Black Lives Matter movement, Trans Rights, reproductive rights, cancel culture, among many others. This resource is designed to better prepare instructors, faculty, higher education staff and administrators to enter into these hard conversations with an improved awareness of contentious issues and how to facilitate, and potentially de-escalate, discussions that are already occurring"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.