In Episode 127, Dan and Michael chat with Dr. John Wills about his new article in Theory & Research in Social Education titled, “‘Daniel was racist’: Individualizing racism when teaching about the Civil Rights Movement.”

Books, Articles and Other Amazing Resources

1. Wills, J. S. (2019). “Daniel was racist”: Individualizing racism when teaching about the Civil Rights Movement. Theory & Research in Social Education, 47(3), 396-425.
2. Wills, J. S. (2019). Silencing racism: Remembering and forgetting race and racism in 11th grade US history classes. Teachers College Record, 121(4).
3. Facing History and Ourselves has a number of great lessons: https://www.facinghistory.org/

Biography

John Wills, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. His areas of research include history-social studies education, multicultural education, and schooling and collective memory. He has investigated the inclusion, exclusion, and representation of diverse peoples in history and social studies education in elementary and secondary classrooms, efforts to create more inclusive narratives of U.S. history, and the effects of high stakes standardized testing on elementary social studies curriculum and instruction. Most recently, he had investigated the representation of race and racism in high school U.S. history classes. See more on his university profile: https://profiles.ucr.edu/john.wills.