Teaching Race in the European Renaissance : A Classroom Guide

A multidisciplinary guide to classroom discussion of race in the European Renaissance.
 
Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide provides both educators and students the tools they need to discuss race in the European Renaissance both in its unique historical contexts and as part of a broader continuum with racial thinking today. The volume gathers scholars of the English, French, Italian, and Iberian Renaissances to provide exercises, lesson plans, methodologies, readings, and other resources designed to bring discussions of race into a broad spectrum of classes on the early modern period, from literature to art history to the history of science. This book is designed to help educators create more diverse and inclusive syllabi and curricula that engage and address a diverse, twenty-first-century student body composed of students from a growing variety of cultural, national, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. By providing clear, concise, and diverse methodologies and analytical focuses, Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide will help educators in all areas of Renaissance Studies overcome the anxiety and fear that can come with stepping outside of their expertise to engage with the topic of race, while also providing expert scholars of race in the Renaissance with new techniques and pedagogies to enhance the classroom experience of their students.

Anna Wainwright is assistant professor of Italian Studies and core faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the coeditor of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation and The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics and Reform in Renaissance Italy.

Matthieu Chapman is a theatre educator, scholar, theorist, director, and dramaturg. He is professor of theatre arts at SUNY New Paltz.. He is the author of Antiblack Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other.”