Blog #4.3 Question: As teachers, how should we be prepared to deal with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and identity in our classrooms and in our one-on-one interactions with students? How can we create teaching units that help students explore these issues?

We can talk about race, ethnicity, gender and identity through the use of texts on these subjects. Opening up these issues and talking about them through exploring narratives such as Bootstraps, Lives on the Boundary, and selected readings from

The Columbia documentary history of race and ethnicity in America, for example, can provide historical perspective on issues of race, as well as scaffolding for further reading, research and writing about these issues.