Teaching Race in the European Renaissance

Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide, published by ACMRS Press in 2023, 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 conversation with contributors Dennis Britton, Ambereen Dadabhoy, Amrita Dhar, and moderators Matthieu Chapman and Anna Wainwright, the editors of the collection, will generate practical approaches to engaging with PCRS in the early modern classroom.