This study was an examination of how African American faculty discussed their coping with racially stressful classrooms. Despite aims for racial equality in higher education, the classroom has been a significant site of racial stressors for African American facility. Analysis of interviews with 16 (8 women, 8 men) African American faculty at a large, predominantly White, university revealed that African American faculty use group-specific coping strategies for classroom racial stressors. Specifically, they coped by creating safe space for students, employing assertive actions to establish authority, questioning students' thinking, and focusing on learning goals for students. (Contains 1 table.)