Human Asset Maps: Encouraging Social Justice Work in my Students
Many of my students get furious in my courses. The subjects that I teach – American Indian histories, the histories of gender and sexuality, histories of race and ethnicity – demonstrate just how much of their history has been kept from them, and how ruthlessly power structures seek to replicate themselves. There’s a fair bit of guilt on the part of those students who hold privilege of one kind or another, and there’s a lot of anger at systems of…