LibGuides: Black Lives Matter: Race, Policing, and Protest: Instructor Resources

What is #syllabus?

Dr. Marcia Chatelain, professor of history at Georgetown University, tweeted with the hashtag #FergusonSyllabus, and thus began a movement where people offered suggestions of readings and films intended for teachers to use in the classroom. Read more...

After #FergusonSyllabus came #BaltimoreSyllabus, and after that came #CharlestonSyllabus. Find links to the Twitter hashtags and selected compiled resources to the right.

#FergusonSyllabus

#FergusonSyllabus on Twitter
Ferguson Syllabus | Sociologists for Justice
How to Teach Kids About What's Happening in Ferguson | The Atlantic
A crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing.
Teaching #Ferguson: Current events in the Classroom Resources
A crowd-sourced resource guide created by social studies educators.

#BaltimoreSyllabus

#CharlestonSyllabus

#CharlestonSyllabus on Twitter
The Charleston Syllabus | African American Intellectual History Society
A reading list developed by Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University.

Online Resources

Approaching Classroom Discussions about Ferguson | University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning & Teaching
How Professors in St. Louis Are Teaching the Lessons of Ferguson’s Unrest | The Chronicle of Higher Education | August 26, 2014
Knowing When to Teach Current Events | The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 22, 2014
5 questions faculty members should ask themselves before they weave a recent controversy into their courses.
Michael Brown | Facing History | August 20, 2014
An article about creating a safe space to discuss Ferguson in the classroom.
Teachers 4 Social Justice
"T4SJ organizes teachers and community-based educators and implements programs and projects that develop empowering learning environments, more equitable access to resources and power, and realizing a just and caring culture."
Teaching about Ferguson | Teaching for Change | August 2014
Suggestions for teaching about police brutality, the history of racism, international human rights, militarization of the police, student fear and resilience, and housing inequality.
Teaching Police, Black Americans, and Society | SocImages | November 30, 2014
Many excellent resources listed to use in your course to teach aspects of race and policing, perceptions of black men and boys as inherently criminal, how Americans have less empathy for black people, and the existence of white supremacy in American society.
The Death of Michael Brown: Teaching About Ferguson | New York Times | September 3, 2014
Lesson plan and student feedback section for use in discussion of Ferguson. Updated December 8, 2014
What is Happening in Ferguson, MO? | Anti-Defamation League | 2014
Lesson planning from the Anti-Defamation League's Current Events Classroom. Geared more toward K-12 but a helpful start for higher education classrooms.
A Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice | Cult of Pedagogy | February 14, 2016
A great mix of classroom-ready materials, lesson plans with supplementary texts or videos that prompt students to learn about, think about, and talk about social justice issues.

Books in the Collection

Culturally Proficient Instruction by Randall B. Lindsey (Editor); Delores B. Lindsey (Editor); Raymond D. Terrell (Editor); Kikanza Nuri Robins
Call Number: LC1099.3 .C845 2006
ISBN: 1412924316
Publication Date: 2005-11-04
Culturally proficient instruction is the result of an inside-out journey during which you explore your values and behaviors while evaluating practices of your workplace.
Making Choices for Multicultural Education by Christine E. Sleeter; Carl A. Grant
Call Number: LC1099.3 .S58 2007
ISBN: 0471746584
Publication Date: 2006-01-10
Focusing on what multicultural education actually looks like in the classroom, "Making Choices for Multicultural Education, Sixth Edition" encourages all to examine the latest theoretical perspectives on multicultural education, as well as personal beliefs about classroom diversity. The authors show how schools reflect broad patterns of institutional discrimination, and then offer five different approaches to addressing such problems in the classroom.
Racism and Education by Gillborn
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780203928424
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
David Gillborn has been described as Britain’s ‘most influential race theorist in education’. In this book he dissects the role of racism across the education system; from national policies to school-level decisions about discipline and academic selection. Race inequality is not accidental and things are not getting better. Despite occasional ‘good news’ stories about fluctuations in statistics, the reality is that race inequality is so deeply entrenched that it is effectively ‘locked in’ as a permanent feature of the system.