Purchase: Amazon | Peter Lang
3 Bald Guys Walk onto a Podcast to Talk about Equity in Education (YouTube)
Interview with Stanford Global Educators Network (YouTube)
Praise for The White Educators’ Guide to Equity
“White Educators’ Guide to Equity is a vital contribution to the literature eon how to create racial equity in college settings — and, importantly, in the setting of community colleges, where such work is more important than ever, but often ignored. A must-read for all educators, but particularly those in community colleges looking to transform their institutions.”
- Tim Wise, author of White Like Me: Refections on Race from a Privileged Son
“Given the disproportionate number of white faculty in the community systemic comparison to the student population, this book is essential in providing the necessary guidance and tools that will allow white teachers to effectively teach students of color. Moreover, this text recognizes that if the community system is going to improve outcomes for students of color that white faculty have an obligation to be equipped to have a greater understanding of race and racism that would impact how they teach.”
- Dr. Edward Bush, President, Consumes River College
“Improving outcomes for community college students begins with improving one’s understanding of race and racism. The first-person perspective of engaging in anti-racist work in this book calls to our core values as community college educators. This book provides guidance, evokes critical self-reflection, and highlights practical tools to effectively educate historically minoritized students, especially for an educational system whose teaching faculty is predominantly white.”
- Dr. Angelica Garcia, President, Berkeley City College
“The White Educators’ Guide to Equity is required reading at this pivotal moment in the history of community college. With a deep love and respect for minoritized students, Wallace invites white educators to join him on a transformative journey towards equity and antiracism in their practice. This journey towards a more just and empowering classroom may be challenging, but Wallace proves a powerful guide that inspires readers to heed this call to action on behalf of our most marginalized students.”
- Adam Bessie, Professor of English, Diablo Valley College & author of Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey (illustrated by Peter Glanting)
The White Educators’ Guide to Equity
Teaching for Justice in Community Colleges
In the United States, community colleges are some of the most racially diverse institutions of higher education. And, as such, as argued in Minding the Obligation Gap in Community Colleges and Beyond (Sims et al., 2020), they are uniquely positioned to function as disruptive technologies, that is, spaces that disrupt institutionalized educational inequity. Pedagogy and curriculum must be liberatory if we hope to engender educational equity precisely because nationwide the majority of community college students are students of color and the majority of African American and Latinx college students start their journeys at a community college. The community college professorate is the inverse, as three-quarters of all college professors are white. These demographics create a cultural schism that is preventing students of color and other minoritized groups from reaching their full intellectual and creative potential. This book fills a gap in the academic literature on how community college educators can more effectively serve their diverse students, from interrogating their own white racial identity, to overhauling their curricula and pedagogy, and later by committing to radical love as praxis. While this book's title explicitly calls on white educators, ultimately, it is for any educator who seeks to dismantle classroom power structures and who strives to create nurturing, justice-advancing curricula.
Media and Interviews
Interview with Amidon Planet (w/ co-author, Jeremiah J. Sims) (podcast)