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Difference, Power, and Oppression Program

This guide supports faculty teaching courses in the DPO category.

Agricultural Sciences

Course Development Resources

Our course development resources are designed to aid faculty as they prepare to teach Difference, Power, and Oppression courses. The academic literature included in this list is only a sample of discipline/field-specific course development resources. Please contact us if you have a resource you'd like to see added to the list.

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Redesigning Syllabi to Create Antiracist Courses

Kilgo, D. B. (2021). Radically Transforming Programs and Syllabi. Teaching Race, 1.

Lo, R. S., & Mayorga, E. (2022). Redesigning Syllabi to Create Antiracist Courses. Teaching Ethics22(2).

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Bernard-Carreño, R. (2016). Engaged Advocacy and Learning to Represent the Self: Positioning People of Color in Our Contemporary Food Movement. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development5(4), 189–193. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2015.054.028

Black Environmental Thought Conference. (2010). Land and power: Sustainable agriculture and African Americans : a collection of essays from the 2007 Black Environmental Thought Conference.

Chinn, P. W. U. (2015). Place and culture-based professional development: Cross-hybrid learning and the construction of ecological mindfulness. Cultural Studies of Science Education10(1), 121–134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-014-9585-0

Duncan Hilchey. (2016). In This Issue: Race and Ethnicity in Food Systems Work. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development5(4). https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2015.054.034

Freeman, J. (2018). LGBTQ scientists are still left out. Nature (London)559(7712), 27–28. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05587-y

LaVergne, D., Jones, W. A., Larke, A., & Elbert, C. D. (2012). Identifying Strategies for Diversity Inclusive Agricultural Education Programs. NACTA Journal56(2), 47–54.

Leslie, I. S. (2017). Queer Farmers: Sexuality and the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture: Queer Farmers. Rural Sociology82(4), 747–771. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12153

Ozorak, E. W. (2013). “We All Have to Eat”: Experiential Learning in Courses on Food and Hunger. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community41(2), 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2013.757985

Passidomo, C. (2014). Whose right to (farm) the city? Race and food justice activism in post-Katrina New Orleans. Agriculture and Human Values31(3), 385–396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-014-9490-x

Sbicca, J. (2012). Growing food justice by planting an anti-oppression foundation: Opportunities and obstacles for a budding social movement. Agriculture and Human Values29(4), 455–466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-012-9363-0

Webster, N., & Hoover, T. (2006). IMPACT OF AN URBAN SERVICE LEARNING EXPERIENCE ON AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION STUDENTS. Journal of Agricultural Education47(4), 91–101. https://doi.org/10.5032/jae.2006.04091

Woods, M. D. (2004). Cultivating cultural competence in agricultural education through community-based service-learning. Journal of Agricultural Education45(1), 10–29. https://doi.org/10.5032/jae.2004.01010