Roundtable: Critical Teaching: Teaching Critically About Race, Racism and Criminal Justice

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable provides a forum for discussion of effective ways to teach about the complicated intersections of race, racism and the criminal justice system. Presenters share assignments, classroom activities, and theoretical approaches which have helped foster a deeper, and critical, understanding of these issues for students.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Teaching Race From a Place of Privilege - Jaimee Limmer, Northern Arizona University; Kasey C. Ragan, University of California, Irvine

• Designing Meaningful Assignments on the Topic of Race and Crime - Candace E. Griffith, Augusta University

• African Americans and the Constitution: More Than Just Law - Charles Reasons, Central Washington University

Chair

• Stanislav Vysotsky, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Discussant

• Carla Barrett, John Jay College of Criminal Justice