All too often, race discourse in the United States devolves into shouting matches, silence, or violence, all of which are mirrored in today's classrooms. This book will help individuals develop the skills needed to facilitate difficult dialogues across race in high school and college classrooms, in teacher professional learning communities, and beyond. The authors codify best practices in race dialogue facilitation by drawing on decades of research and examples from their own practices. They share their mistakes and hard-earned lessons to help readers avoid common pitfalls. Through their concrete lesson plans and hands-on material, both experienced and novice facilitators can immediately use this inclusive and wide-ranging curriculum in a variety of classrooms, work spaces, and organizations with diverse participants.“Race Dialogues: A Facilitator's Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom is a scholarly, timely, and urgently needed book. While there is other literature on facilitation of inter-group dialogues, none are so deeply and effectively focused on race—the elephant in the room.”—From the foreword by Patricia Gurin.

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Introduction -- Why is there a need for race dialogues? a brief primer on race and -- Education in the United States -- What is intercultural dialogue? -- Setting up an inclusive dialogue space -- Anatomy of facilitation -- The power of sharing stories -- Asking good questions and responding to participant comments -- Co-facilitation -- Encountering conflict and preparing for pushback -- Responding to conflict and resistance -- Managing resistance among different stakeholders-our story -- Race dialogues curriculum -- Lesson one: why are we even talking about race? -- Lesson two: how do we engage in dialogue? -- Lesson three: creating group norms -- Lesson four: history of racism and resistance -- Lesson five: understanding social identities and intersectionality -- Lesson six: individual racism and microaggressions -- Lesson seven-implicit bias and cycle of socialization -- Lesson eight-exploring group privilege and oppression -- Lesson nine-institutionalized racism -- Lesson ten-caucus groups and fishbowls -- Lesson eleven-hot topics -- Lesson twelve-allyhood-interrupting individual racism -- Lesson thirteen: allyhood-how to be an aspiring ally and spheres of influence -- Afterword.