When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms

by Helen Fox

The third revised edition of "When Race Breaks Out" is a guide for college and high school teachers who want to promote honest and informed conversations about race and racism. Based on the author's personal practice and interviews with students and faculty from a variety of disciplines, this book combines personal memoirs, advice, teaching ideas, and lively classroom vignettes. A unique insideras guide to the salient ideas, definitions, and opinions about race helps instructors answer students' questions and anticipate their reactions, both to the material and to each other. An extensive annotated bibliography of articles, books, and videos with recommendations for classroom use is included.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Politics, Nonfiction

267 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2001

About the author

Helen Fox lives in London with her husband, a cognitive scientist, and their son. She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in history and modern languages. Before she became a writer, she worked at a primary school and trained and worked as an actress. Eager was her first book.

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2018 Task 14: A book of social science

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just a skim but some good ideas/prompts to revisit in the classroom.

[Drick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helen Fox has provide a great resource for professors who teach courses on race and ethnic studies. She addresses several topics and offers a wealth of teaching ideas and resources. In fact the resources are the strongest part of the book, which she has updated in this second revised edition.

The book is most appropriate for those who teach undergraduates, but I found that many of her ideas could be adapted for grad students as well.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thoughtful book on better engaging students in conversations around race and racism

[Harry Griffin]

This is an awesome read! This book is for educators that want to promote more honest and informed conversations on race and racism. This book would be great for a post-secondary classroom. I would use this book to help promote diversity and inclusion among my students.