Teaching and Race

Irene Murphy Lietz holds a B.A. (Marygrove College), M.A. (University of Detroit), and Ph.D. (Union Institute and University). A Professor Emerita of English at Carlow University, Pittsburgh, and long-time teacher of first-year and professional writing, her work focuses on social justice, racism, and gender-based violence.

• Acknowledgments – Introduction – How to Survive, Manage, and Even Encourage Race Talk – Methodology and Literature: How Did We Get to This Place and Time? – Annabell – Roberta – Elaine – Madeline – Next Steps – Index of Authors – Index of Words and Phrases.

“Teaching and Race: How to Survive, Manage, and Even Encourage Race Talk is an important teaching tool and model of reflection on a teacher’s own racial subject position for writing teachers of various levels. It offers college and even high school teachers who are white ways to interrogate whiteness, race, and racism in their classrooms with their students. Lietz’ frames much of her insights gleaned from her teaching and the four students she highlights in the book in ways that I find humble, compassionate, and thoughtful. Her discussion throughout is a good model for how white, female teachers can do important race work both from their own subject positions in the classroom as a teacher and through their readings and activities with students. This is the kind of race work we all can do together in the literacy classroom.”—Asao B. Inoue, Professor and Associate Dean, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University; Author of Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing for a Socially Just Future