Days After Racial Injustice
If teachers don't address racial injustice, students will through social media — often without context and sometimes without safety. Days After Racial Injustice centers the experiences of students and teachers navigating moments when Black lives, immigrant lives, and the lives of the marginalized are publicly disregarded, and asks what it looks like to refuse silence.
Overview
Racial injustice is not a new crisis — it is a persistent, structural reality that occasionally surfaces into national consciousness in ways that make it impossible to ignore. When those moments arrive, students of color may feel seen or re-traumatized, while students from more privileged backgrounds may feel confused, defensive, or newly aware of realities they’d been insulated from.
DAP asks teachers to move beyond “both sides” framing and toward a justice-centered analysis — one that names systems of power, affirms the humanity of marginalized students, and challenges all students to examine their own positionality and responsibilities.
Key themes
- Refusing the false neutrality of "two sides" on questions of human dignity
- Affirming and protecting students of color in the classroom
- Building white students' capacity for critical self-reflection
- Naming systemic racism without reducing it to individual bad actors
Activities & Resources
Classroom-ready protocols and tools for teaching on days after racial injustice.