Small Steps, Big Impact Episode 9 – Power & Language in Practice
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Our guest today is Dr. Nicole Scalissi, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History within the College of Visual and Performing Arts here at UNCG. Our conversation today focuses on how to apply EDI practices in the classroom with students.
Link to full transcript here.
Music, A Short Walk, from Zapsplat.com
Quote from the Episode
Find ways to include students in the very fabric of the course.
About our Guests
Dr. Nicole F. Scalissi
Nicole F. Scalissi is a historian of modern and contemporary art and her research focuses on issues of identity, equity, and violence in the contemporary United States and at its borders. Her current book project focuses on contemporary performances and interventions by Latinx and Afro-Latinx artists that trace the relationships between identity, violence, and media in the contemporary United States. She is an affiliated faculty in UNCG’s Afro-Latin American/Latinx Studies Project.
Resources from the Episode
- Resources for the right to one own language:
- Establishing Ground Rules with Students
- Aram Han Sifuentes, “How Internalized White Supremacy Manifests for My BIPOC Students in Art School,” Art Journal Volume 80, 2021 – Issue 2: 6-13. Retrieved from: https://caa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00043249.2021.1872294#.Yjku65rMKzk
- Ana María León, “Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Cowriting, Co Teaching, and Co Learning,” Art Journal Open: Pedagogies November 20, 2018. Retrieved from: http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=10593
- Lawrence Waldron, “Color in the Curriculum or in Ourselves? Why I Thought I Had to Choose,” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2019) 1 (3): 92–95. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.130006e
- Rita Kohli & Daniel G. Solórzano, “Teachers, please learn our names!: Racial microaggressions and the K-12 Classroom,” Race Ethnicity and Education (May 2012). Retrieved from: DOI:10.1080/13613324.2012.674026
- Lalitha Pamidigantam, “Say my Name Right: Tips for Producing a MicroAggression-Free Zoom Meeting, browngirl magazine oct. 18 2021. Retrieved from: https://browngirlmagazine.com/2021/10/say-my-name-right-tips-for-producing-a-microaggression-free-zoom-meeting/
- Ruchika Tulshyan, “If You Don’t Know How to Say Someone’s Name, Just Ask,” Harvard Business Review, January 09, 2020. Retrieved from: https://hbr.org/2020/01/if-you-dont-know-how-to-say-someones-name-just-ask
Additional Resources
- When to Call Someone Out or Call Them In Over Racist Behavior by Tiffany Jewell
- Author Tiffany Jewell is a writer, anti-racist educator and consultant. Her book, The Book is Anti-Racist is often categorized as for teens, but it’s for everyone!
- Loretta J. Ross is a professor, activist, and public intellectual on why Cancel Culture is “Toxic” (for which Call-in culture is an antidote) and an New York Times piece on her work “What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?”
- “Interrupting Bias: Calling Out vs. Calling In” via Seed the Way: Education for Justice and Equity
