Teaching U.S. Politics to Support Multiracial Democracy

Students in political science classes seek knowledge to understand and navigate the political world. Teaching U.S. politics to support and participate in multiracial democracy requires acknowledging and making explicit our commitment to inclusive democracy. In addition, we must interrogate the normative framework in which empirical research is done and confront the exclusionary biases in much research in the subfield. Without connecting empirical findings to normative assumptions and biases, we cannot equip students to be citizens. Here, I provide three curricular interventions to situate empirical evidence in the normative values of inclusive democracy and to critique the exclusivity of the discipline.