By: Mahauganee Shaw Bonds and Sydney Freeman, Jr.
Campus Uprisings
Ty-Ron M.O. Douglas, Kmt G. Shockley, Ivory Toldson
Teachers College Press
1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
www.tcpress.com
9780807763667, $34.95, PB, 192pp
Racial unrest on campus can be the result of either an active threat to the campus community or the news of a past racist incident or event. Recovery and healing for a campus community can be quite an unwieldy process. Although there is no set checklist, we offer suggestions for some potential steps along the pathway forward after a campus has been touched by racial unrest (and we offer a detailed discussion of these strategies in chapter 7 of Campus Uprisings).
Provide space and resources for the campus to process and heal.
Establish or intensify a focus on the campus climate.
Take lessons from higher education history and institutional peers.
Develop a sophisticated response plan for racial incidents (including proactively accounting for the resources, and completing any training, required to respond appropriately).