Description:
This edited volume addresses the extent to which attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challenges for professors in the humanities.
Review Quotes: "Teaching with Tension should be required reading for all university professors. Writing from diverse perspectives and positions, these teachers and scholars analyze the promises and the perils of teaching race as an academic subject to varied sets of students in our current movement. Whether you are a beginning graduate assistant or a seasoned veteran professor, you will find something to improve your pedagogy around issues of race and racism." --Katy Chiles, author of Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literatures of Early America