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Racial Justice Learning Community

Communities
CTE and The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (OIDI) are proud to co-sponsor the Racial Justice Learning Community (RJLC).

The RJLC seeks to inspire and resource faculty to engage in and further develop anti-racist pedagogies and practices for all academic endeavors including instruction, mentoring, advising, scholarship, community engagement, and service.

2023-2024 Fellows

CTE Fellow

OIDI Fellows

Previous RJLC Fellows

CTE Fellow

Dr. Julia Lynch, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership

OIDI Fellows

Michael Jefferson, Residence Coordinator, On-Campus Housing

Dr. Priyadarshini Shankar, Assistant Professor, Department of Film Studies

 

Felix Brooks, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr. Maia Butler, Associate Professor, Department of English

Dr. Addie Sayers China, Associate Professor, Department of English

Felix Brooks, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology

Dr. Addie Sayers China, Associate Professor, Department of English

Dr. Jamie Pond, Academic Advisor, University College


RJLC Programming

2022-2023 Offerings

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)

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

Campus Resources

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

Randall Library

Randall 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.

Randall Library's Antiracism Resources

Resources From the Web

Free Access to the New York Times

Additional 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

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