Contentions: Race, Evaluation, and Retaliation in the Classroom

4th Floor of Walter Library
Light Snacks and Refreshments will be served

While the rhetoric of diversity is valued in higher education in Minnesota, the reality of diversity can be harsh, especially for those who occupy minority status as both teachers and learners in University classrooms. Evaluations, rather than being a legitimate assessment of learning, often used to punish instructors who are different, especially those who teach on topics that intersects with race, gender, sexuality, nationality and other forms of difference. Join us as we explore the racial politics of teaching and learning, and how it impacts formal assessments of teaching and learning.
Responses by Catherine Squires and Yuichiro Onishi
Catherine Squires is Associate Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the 21st Century (NYU Press, 2014).
Yuichiro Onishi is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa (NYU Press, 2013).

Shannon Gibney is Faculty in English at Minneapolis Community & Technical College (MCTC), where she teaches critical and creative writing, journalism, and African diasporic topics. Her writing regularly appears in a variety of venues, most recently The Crisis, The Nerds of Color, and Inside Higher Ed. Her first novel, SEE NO COLOR, will be released by Carolrhhoda Lab in November.
Sponsored by Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota and U of M African American and African Studies