We anticipate having two reading groups per year based on topics that are relevant to faculty mentors and their professional development. Initially, our two reading groups will address two central issues: (1) workload for faculty members of color who have been found to face higher than typical demands for committees, mentoring, and representation of groups than White faculty members, and (2) White allies and deepening our understanding of Critical Race Theory and advocacy.
Group 1: Faculty of Color: Giving Back Without Drowning
- Meeting to determine 4 readings/films that would stimulate strategic planning around not only retaining but respecting and honoring faculty of color for their everyday and extraordinary contributions
- Responding to the growing literature that Faculty of Color experience discrimination, additional pressures to serve as role models, members of committees, representatives of groups, while held to the same productivity standards
Group 2: White Allies Digging Deeper
- Historical and Structural Precedents of race privilege in education (Book: We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know, Gary Howard)
- Legal precedents (Book: Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and its Relevance Today, Jacqueline Battalora)
- White Like Me (Film, Time Wise)
- White Fragility (Article, Robin DiAngelo)
