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Treading Water: Faculty Of Color Teaching Multicultural Classes During The Pandemic, Quinita Ogletree, Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran

Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice

There has never been a time like this in recent history. In the last year, educators have been building new paradigms as they teach. In this article, we inquire into our experiences teaching race at a PWI during the historic times of protests against the killings of Black men and women at the hands of the police and others, COVID-19, an election year, natural disasters, and changes in the Supreme Court. This article will reflect on the strategies and pedagogies used to support Faculty of Color teaching multicultural education/diversity classes at PWIs, and how the authors handled cultural taxation caused …