EXAMINING THE BAGGAGE: First Steps Toward Transforming Habits of Mind Around Race in Higher Education

Crystal Gafford Muhammad, Adrienne D. Dixson

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Abstract

In an age of politically correct color blindness, it is important that higher education engage students in honest discourse about diversity (King, 1991). Throughout higher education, most faculty as well as students regard themselves as multiculturally aware, without regard for varying degrees of multicultural competence (Bennett & Bennett, 2004; King, 1991). Transforming perspectives related to race and other diversities requires students to become aware of their identities, influences that have shaped those identities, and their attendant habits of mind and ways of being around matters of diversity (Sheared, 1994). What does it take to foster openness to questioning previously unexamined and unquestioned perspectives in order to consider alternative perspectives on race?.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMost College Students are Women
Subtitle of host publicationImplications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy
Pages113-132
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9781000976069
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2023

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2008 Taylor & Francis Group.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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