Inclusive Pedagogy & Classical Studies

• Keele University’s Manifesto for Decolonising the Curriculum
• hooks, bell. 2014. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge.
• Rankine, Patrice D. “The Classics, Race, and Community-Engaged or Public Scholarship.” American Journal of Philology 140, no. 2 (2019): 345-359.
• Bonilla-Silva, E. ‘Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation’, American Sociological Review 62.3 (1997), pp.465-80
• Jackson, P. ‘Fight or Die: How to Move from Statements to Action’, Eidolon
• Dr Sarah Derbew Interview: ‘Decolonizing Blackness, alongside the Classics Curriculum’
• Dr Tessa Roynon Interview: ‘On Decompartmentalizing Black Classicism’
• Prof Patrice Rankine Interview: ‘Classics, Black Classicism and the Portals of Disciplines’
• BBC Video on ‘Decolonising the curriculum’, made by a group of sixth formers from London
• ‘Classics at the Intersections’, blog by Prof. Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Background Reading

• Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1991. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43 (6): 1241-1299.
• Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz, eds. 2019. Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
• Cote-Meek, Sheila. 2014. Colonized Classrooms. Racism, trauma and resistance in post-secondary education. Fernwood Publishing, Halifax and Winnipeg.
• Diop, Cheikh Anta. 1955. The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality. Translated by Mercer Cook. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books.
• Ferreira da Silva, Denise. 2009. “No-Bodies: Law, Raciality, and Violence.” Griffith Law Review 18 (2): 212–36.
• Firmin, Joseph-Anténor. 1885. The Equality of the Human Races. Translated by Asselin Charles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Garvey, Marcus. 1925. “Who and What Is a Negro?” In Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey, Second edition, II:18–21. New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
• Greenwood, Emily. 2009. “Postcolonialism”, in The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, eds. G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi, and P. Vasunia. Oxford University Press: 653-664.
• Greenwood, Emily. 2019. “Subaltern Classics in Anti- and Post-Colonial Literatures in English”, in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol. 5: 1880-2000, ed. Kenneth Haynes. Oxford University Press: 576-607.
• Haley, Shelley. 1993. “Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-claiming, Re-empowering” in Feminist Theory and the Classics, eds. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz & Amy Richlin, New York & Oxford: Routledge.
• Haley, S. P. (2009) ‘Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies’, in L. Nasrallah and E. Schüssler Fiorenza (eds.) Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies, Minneapolis, MN, 27-49
• Harris, Angela, Richard Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic, eds. 2012. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition. New York.
• Hill Collins, Patricia. 2019. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Mbembe, Achille. 2003. “Necropolitics.” Translated by Libby Meintjes. Public Culture 15 (1): 11–40.
• McCoskey, D. E., ‘Race’ Oxford Classical Dictionary, March 2016
• Nelson, Charmaine. 2007. The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Minnesota Press.
• Quinn, J. ‘After San Diego: Reflections on Racism in Classics’, Council of University Classical Departments Bulletin 48 (2019)
• Sharpe, Christina. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke University Press.
• Talbot, M. ‘The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture’, The New Yorker, October 29, 2018
• Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1997. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Yancy, G. “Colonial Gazing: The Production of the Body as Other.” Western Journal of Black Studies 32, (2008): 1–15.

We have chosen not to present a list of publications by our colleagues who identify as people of colour separate from the bibliographies that we provide in our modules because we want their views to continue to be part of the larger disciplinary conversations, where they belong. If you are after such a list, you can find them here or here or here, for example.