Teaching Race: Struggles, Strategies, and Scholarship for the Mass Communication Classroom

When teaching about race, instructors from various backgrounds must acknowledge the challenges surrounding the topic while facilitating the learning of undergraduate and graduate students. This guide presents wisdom from the frontlines of teaching to help all instructors engage more fully and effectively with contentious topics.

Robin Blom is associate professor and graduate director of journalism at Ball State University. He is director of the Unified Research Lab (URL), where he facilitates eye-tracking, virtual reality, psycho-physiology, and gaming studies with more than a dozen faculty and student researchers. George L. Daniels is associate professor of journalism and creative media at The University of Alabama. He is immediate past head of the AEJMC Minorities and Communication Division and is a nationally certified master journalism educator (MJE) and the inaugural Faculty Fellow for Diversity & Inclusion for the Broadcast Education Association.