When Race Breaks Out ― Conversations About Race and Racism in College Classrooms

Fox provides guidance to instructors teaching about race in American society, gearing the presented approach around millennial students' engagement with popular culture and revising this edition to adapt to the widespread assumption that with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency America has moved "beyond race." She reviews the key issues that still structure experiences of race in the United States and describes classroom exercises and writing assignments that are designed to help students engage in critical thinking about race in American society. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Helen Fox is a retired faculty member of the University of Michigan’s Social Theory and Practice Program. She is the author of Their Highest Vocation: Social Justice and the Millennial Generation (2011), Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing (1994) and the editor, with C. Schroeder and P. Bizzell, of ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy (2002), as well as many articles, speeches and book chapters.