Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education: An Analysis of the Possibilities and Challenges to Pedagogical Transformation

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Abstract

Reporting on the results of a self-study, the proposed paper offers an analysis of what enables and hinders faculty across the disciplines from enacting antiracist praxis. Findings suggest that antiracist praxis is enabled by a group/community setting, characterized by accountability and critical feedback as well as by a set of tools and protocols by which users can interrogate their assumptions about teaching and learning. Antiracist praxis is hindered, however, by tenure and promotion processes, an audit-based neoliberal culture, and by discourses of success and failure. Extending scholarship on antiracist pedagogy in higher education, the paper not only shows antiracism in action – faculty going beyond personal reflection and moving to action – but also identifies constraints to, and levers for change.

Author

• Jie Yie Park, Clark University