Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading with Malini Johar Schueller
From Teaching in Higher Ed by Bonni Stachowiak
June 4, 2026 · 28 min · Episode 625
About this episode
Malini Johar Schueller discusses critical race reading and the importance of discomfort in the learning process.
Malini Johar Schueller unpacks critical race reading and the role of discomfort in the classroom on episode 625 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode tag (full size, Center alignment) and any plain-text quotes, each followed by -Malini Johar Schueller on its own line --> Racism is a permanent structural feature of American society, and law alone, as now we have it, cannot deal with racism because racism is also part of law. -Malini Johar Schueller Critical race reading takes off from that, and it asks, is there a way of reading… that can awaken us to questions of racial privilege and hierarchy, but without us imagining that we have taken over somebody’s place? -Malini Johar Schueller Critical empathy, where you feel for others and you feel the injustice of others, but you also feel differently, you know, differently. -Malini Johar Schueller Some level of discomfort is fine for learning, because if learning doesn’t produce any kind of discomfort, you haven’t moved outside your zone of what you already know. -Malini Johar Schueller Resources Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading , by Malini Johar Schueller Malini Johar…
People in this episode
Host: Bonni Stachowiak
Guest: Malini Johar Schueller
Topics covered
- critical race theory
- discomfort in learning
- racial privilege
- critical empathy
- education
- teaching strategies
Keywords
- critical race reading
- discomfort
- education
- racial hierarchy
- learning
- teaching
- empathy
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Teaching to Transgress, Defy: The Power of Saying No in a World That Demands Yes, The 1619 Project
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