Faculty Center Book Club #2

Published on October 25, 2022

This book club aims to build racial consciousness in STEM (especially white) faculty toward relinquishing that form of oppressive power. Section I of the book focuses on racial realism, helping readers understand how whiteness shapes STEM spaces. Section II is about problematizing some kinds of racial consciousness and Section III is about charting a path forward. The first goal is for STEM faculty to see and name the ways that whiteness often pervades and structures STEM spaces. Building from here, by the end of the semester, the goal is that participants are able to name whiteness in action in STEM classroom and departmental spaces in the moment and the beginnings of the habit of doing so throughout their work. Each participant will plan an intervention in their sphere of influence; given the focus of the book, these interventions will likely be about talking explicitly about whiteness with their STEM students.

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