Stephen Brookfield discusses racial identity in the classroom on episode 147 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode For the first half of my life I was race blind. –Stephen Brookfield

I was colluding in a system and in practices that reinforced racism without consciously being aware of this. –Stephen Brookfield

Most white people grow up with these elements in their consciousness but are unaware that they’re there. –Stephen Brookfield

We’re here to challenge, rather than to reassure. –Stephen Brookfield

We know that we’ll have been successful when … some of our comfortable assumptions are being questioned. –Stephen Brookfield Resources

TIHE15: How to get students to participate in discussion with Stephen Brookfield TIHE98: The Skillful Teacher with Stephen Brookfield The Skillful Teacher by Stephen Brookfield Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates A Conversation with My Black Son, a New York Times OpEd Video Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon Sullivan Eduard C. Lindeman Michel Foucault Derald Wing Sue’s books Videos of Derald Wing Sue Presumed Incompetent by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris TIHE123: Presumed Incompetent with Yolanda Flores Niemann Stephen Covey on Trust The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill David Bohm www.todaysmeet.com

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