DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION IN CLASSICS EDUCATION · Summer 2022 · Torch: U.S.
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ARTICLES:
The articles listed below are explanations, perspectives, and challenges; they discuss the need for inclusivity in classics and identify the areas where the field must improve.
- White People Explain Classics to Us | by Yung In Chae
- Hold My Mead: A Bibliography For Historians Hitting Back At White Supremacy
- Time for Anti-Racism: A Way Forward for America and Higher Education
- Can’t We Work Together? Reframing Inclusivity in Classics
- Documenting Appropriations – Pharos
- He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
- The Man Behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero's Journey?
RESOURCES:
These presentations, articles, and videos give suggestions and guidance for teaching about crucial topics in a Greek or Latin classroom, as well as making the classical languages accessible for all students, no matter their background or disability status. The classics have earned a reputation for gatekeeping and exclusion, leading to a lack of diversity in the field, and these resources provide ways to offer more support to all students and to discuss Greece and Rome without whitewashing or diminishing acts of violence.
Anti-Elitism
- ACTFL Latin Interpretive Reading Assessment
- Non-Elite Latin for the Classroom – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Love And Loss: Nothing Says “Happy Valentine’s Day” Like Epitaphs!
Racial Competency
- Sess. 10B: Tom Di Giulio, Integrating Racial Competence and Anti-Racist Strategies in the Classroom
- Five Tips for Teaching Racial Competency with Racially Biased Textbooks
- A Conversation About Slavery in the Latin Classroom
- Ancient Orientalism in Modern White Ethnonationalism – Pharos
Gender in Latin and Antiquity
- Latin Teachers: Rape Is Not Romantic, So Stop Describing It That Way
- A Style Guide for Gender Inclusivity in the Latin Language
- Writing and Talking About Non-Binary People in Latin
- Gender Diversity in Greek and Latin Grammar: Ten Ancient Discussions
Miscellaneous
- Race and Ethnicity in Classics Pedagogy: A Starter Pack
- Race and Ethnicity Syllabus Workshop
- Diotíma
TEXTBOOKS:
The textbooks used in the classroom directly influence a student’s experience with the language. Though traditionally, many textbooks have glorified or glossed over the injustices of antiquity (slavery and rape, for example), newer options bring a more nuanced view to the previous textbook depiction of a blond, rich, and privileged Roman family.
- https://hands-up-education.org/suburani.html