ASA’s Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology (TRAILS) is an excellent source for lesson plan ideas relevant to teaching race. Here are a few recommendations available through the TRAILS website:
Identifying Privilege and White Fragility (Brennan Miller, Kent State University)
What’s in a Name? (Jerome Rabow, UCLA)
Social Inequality: Race and the Criminal Legal System (Nick Rochin, UIC)
Implicit Association Test Assignment (Zachary Simoni, University of Alabama)
Stratification Active Learning Assignments (Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania)
Social Construction of Race, Ethnicity, and/or Gender Through Media (Amy Baumann Grau, Eastern New Mexico University)
Teaching Sociology is ASA’s quarterly journal for discipline-specific research on teaching and learning. In addition to experimental research on teaching sociology, the journal publishes lesson plans and exercises (with commentary) that may be adopted by instructors teaching race in the college classroom. A few recommendations include:
Every semester, graduate students and instructors in the Sociology Department at UW-Madison are creating new, innovative ways to facilitate discussions about race in their classrooms. To share a lesson plan you have created with future instructors and TAs, email the MRRC and we will curate the lesson plan on this webpage.
An example lesson plan for Sociology 210, provided by Nona Gronert: Discussing Race Using Beyonce’s Superbowl Performance