Liberal Arts and the Humanities
113 Gender, Race, Sexuality, Social Justice
Case Studies
Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion – 2nd Edition (CC BY-NC)
These realistic, emotional cases are designed to help students grapple with ethical issues related to discrimination, diversity, equity, inclusion and general social issues in the workplace. These valuable cases are appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in the humanities, business, healthcare, agriculture, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, land use studies, law and more. In addition to the background description and scenario, each case comes with modifiable discussion questions, notes on teaching strategies, and a reading list.
Collections
Labor Studies & Work (Temple University Press)
Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, TU Press has reissued 32 outstanding labor studies books and made them freely available online. Chosen by an advisory board of scholars, labor studies experts, publishers, and librarians, each book contains a new foreword by a prominent scholar, reflecting on the content and placing it in historical context.
Courses
Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies (CC BY-NC-SA)
Interdisciplinary survey of people of African descent that draws on the overlapping approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing. This course connects the experiences of African-Americans and of other American minorities, focusing on social, political, and cultural histories, and on linguistic patterns.
Everyday Social Justice (CC BY-NC)
This website is for people who want to learn about social justice, or for folks who teach it. It has all of the teaching materials for my courses on social justice, so you could walk yourself through it or talk about it with a “book” group! The classes use conversations instead of lectures, so I use pop-culture materials to cover what would usually be the lecture in a traditional classroom. The 2-hour lessons are all conversation-based, so you’ll see the prompts that get people talking about real-life scenarios. I teach from an intersectional feminist perspective, so we’re always talking about the ways that all oppressions connect; the similarities between racism and classism, the connections between sexism and ageism, the ways that ableism affects transphobia. One of the hardest things about my job is talking to people about the worst parts of humanity, the ways we hurt each other on purpose. These courses help you think about ways of doing better through empathy, compassion, and patience.
- Intercultural Women’s Studies (CC BY-NC)
- Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies 101 (CC BY-NC)
- Introduction to Queer Studies 101 (CC BY-NC)
- Women, Social Change and Activism (CC BY-NC)
Images
The Gender Spectrum Collection (CC BY-NC-ND)
A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the cliché