Racial Justice Learning Community

CTE Fellows

• Dr. Julia Lynch: lynchj@uncw.edu
• Dr. Shawn Savage: savages@uncw.edu 

OIDI Fellows

• Dr. Priyadarshini Shanker: shankarp@uncw.edu

RJLC Programming

2023-2024 Offerings 

Spring 2024

Racial Justice Learning Community Space and Grace Series:

• "Counterstorytelling," with Dr. Julia Lynch and special guest Dr. Larissa Malone (February 27, 2024)
• "Leaning into the Silence: Discussing Racial Health Disparities within the Classrooms," with Dr. Julia Lynch (March 26, 2024)

Fall 2023

The 2023 Racial Justice Fall Institute: “What Racial Justice Means to Me & My Community: Implications for Pedagogies, Practices and Partnerships” with Drs. Julia Lynch and Shawn Savage (December 12, 2023). 

2022-2023 Offerings

Spring 2023: 

RJLC Film Series:

• "Wilmington on Fire," followed by a conversation with filmmaker Christopher Everett and Dr. Glen Harris; organized by RJLC Fellows Dr. Priyadarshini Shanker, Dr. Julia Lynch and Michael Jefferson
• "Freedom Hill," organized by RJLC Fellows Dr. Priyadarshini Shanker, Dr. Julia Lynch and Michael Jefferson
• "Always in Season," followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Priyadarshini with filmmaker Shanker Jacqueline Olive, Sonya AmenRa (Director of the New Hanover Black Leadership Caucus), and Dr. Kimberly Cook, and concluding with a resiliency exercise led J'vanete Skiba (Assistant Director for Equity, Education, and Engagement for the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force), organized by RJLC Fellow Dr. Priyadarshini Shanker

"Black Women Teacher (BWT) Pedagogy Panel: Dreaming with bell hooks," moderated by Dr. Julia Lynch with panelists Dr. Maia Butler, Alexis Dickerson, Dr. Tiffany Lane, Dr. Candace Thompson, Tiffany Tucker, and Dr. Breea Willingham, organized by RJLC Fellows Dr. Priyadarshini Shanker, Dr. Julia Lynch and Michael Jefferson

"The Who and Why Behind My Way of Being: A HipHop Feminist Celebration of My Black Woman Pedagogy," with Dr. Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Winston-Salem State University, organized by RJLC Fellow Dr. Julia Lynch

Fall 2022: 

Developing Equity in Curriculum While Practicing Reflexivity Series:

• "Situating the Self," with Dr. Julia Lynch (October 21, 2023)
• "Why we gotta talk about race? Theorizing and defining equity," with Dr. Julia Lynch (November 4, 2023)
• "No! You can’t just teach the content," with Dr. Julia Lynch (November 10, 2023)

Offices and Centers

Office of Institutional Diversity & Inclusion
Upperman African American Cultural Center
Centro Hispaño
Mohin-Scholz LGBTQIA Resource Center
Asian Heritage Cultural Center
Disability Resource Center
Gender Studies & Research Center
Office of Military Affairs

UNCW Library

UNCW Library is committed to addressing systemic racism in our community. One effort we have made is to compile a list of personal reading and teaching resources.

Titles may be in both print and electronic formats. We will continue to add titles to this list. If you have a recommended resource you would like the library to purchase, please contact Melissa Raymer, raymerm@uncw.edu.

UNCW Library's Antiracism Resources

Project Implicit

Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts, and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control.

The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a "virtual laboratory" for collecting data on the Internet.

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Scholarship

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Journal of Effective teaching in higher education
Special Issue - In the Along: Curricular and Pedagogical imperatives for black mattering