Using Educational Institutional Archives to Unsettle and Rectify Racial Pasts

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ID18985809
AuthorsDevon R Goss (Emory University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume7
Issue4
Pages594-599
Publication date2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Race and Ethnicity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2332-6492 • E-ISSN: 2332-6506
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/23326492211029319
OpenAlexW3179217867
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

This article offers a pedagogical response to the growing demand that institutions of higher education must contend with their racial pasts. Drawing upon concepts from the literature on collective memory, students work with institutional archives that showcase localized examples of racial injustice. Students are then asked to imagine potential options for the collective redress of these institutional racial pasts. This activity provides a chance for students to consider how racial histories are preserved and told, and to suggest solutions for changing that story. Moreover, through engaging in this activity, students are encouraged to see their campus environments within the context of contemporary understandings of institutional racism

Collective memory · Higher education · Injustice · Pedagogy · Political science · Racism · Redress · Social injustice · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology

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