Center for Education, Equity and Diversity

We have five main sections in our resource library: Multimedia, Children's Books, Young Adult Books, Curriculum & Guide Books, and Adult Books. Our materials are now catalogued (some are still in process) through the main library, with online search tools available. Please be aware that our check-out system is not linked to the main library and will not display already checked-out items.

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To maximize student and faculty access to our collection, books and other resources are limited to a one week check-out period. Videos and DVDs are to be checked out only by staff and faculty members.  Students may watch videos in the Center only. Thank you.

 

NEW BOOKS AT THE CEED!

A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
Doris Seale & Beverly Slapin
A Broken Flute is a book of reviews that critically evaluate children's books about Native Americans written between the early 1900s and 2003, accompanied by stories, essays and poems from its contributors. The authors critique some 600 books by more than 500 authors, arranging titles A to Z and covering pre-school, K-12 levels, and evaluations of some adult and teacher materials. This book is a valuable resource for community and educational organizations, and a key reference for public and school libraries, and Native American collections.

A People’s History for the Classroom
Bill Bigelow

A People's History for the Classroom helps teachers introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of U.S. history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. It includes a new introductory essay by veteran teacher Bill Bigelow on teaching strategies that align with Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. These exemplary teaching articles and lesson plans -- drawn from an assortment of Rethinking Schools publications -- emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history, and raise important questions about patterns of wealth and power throughout U.S. history.

A People’s History of the American Empire
Howard Zinn
Now Howard Zinn, historian Paul Buhle, and cartoonist Mike Konopacki have collaborated to retell, in vibrant comics form, a most immediate and relevant chapter of A People’s History: the centuries-long story of America’s actions in the world. Narrated by Zinn, this version opens with the events of 9/11 and then jumps back to explore the cycles of U.S. expansionism from Wounded Knee to Iraq, stopping along the way at World War I, Central America, Vietnam, and the Iranian revolution. The book also follows the story of Zinn, the son of poor Jewish immigrants, from his childhood in the Brooklyn slums to his role as one of America’s leading historians.

Affirming Diversity
Sonia Nieto, Patty Bode
In this revision of her best-selling book, author Sonia Nieto explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education for students of all backgrounds. The book looks at how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today's classroom. Expanding upon the popular case-study approach, the fifth edition examines the lives of 19 real students who are affected by multicultural education, or a lack of it. Social justice is firmly embedded in this view of multicultural education, and teachers are encouraged to work for social change in their classrooms, schools, and communities.

America Beyond The Color Line (DVD)
Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels the length and breadth of the United States to take the temperature of black America at the start of the new century. Gates visits the East Coast, the deep South, inner-city Chicago and Hollywood to explore the rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geographic.

American Paradox
Renford Reese
Author Renford Reese examines how young African American males have unwittingly accepted one model of black masculinity. The acceptance of this "tough guy" model is having detrimental consequences on an entire generation of young black men. The book's thesis is supported by a survey the author conducted of 756 African American males from the ages of 13-19 in Los Angeles and Atlanta. This survey attempts to gauge the attitudes, perceptions, and basic knowledge of young African American men regarding black public figures. One component of this survey is a Realness Scale that the author constructed. Along with this survey, interviews were conducted with various young black males to find out why they, or many of their peers, have embraced the gangsta-thug persona. The results of the survey and interviews are fascinating.

Anti-Bias Curriculum (DVD)
Louise Derman-Sparks
An influential best-seller full of suggestions for helping staff and children respect each other as individuals and confronting, transcending, and eliminating barriers based on race, culture, gender, or ability. Chapters include: why an anti-bias curriculum; creating an anti-bias environment; learning about racial differences and similarities; learning about disabilities; learning about gender identity; learning about cultural differences and similarities; learning to resist stereotyping and discriminatory behavior; and working with parents.

Beyond Heroes and Holiday
Lee, Menkart, Okazawa-Rey
This award winning interdisciplinary guide for teachers, administrators, students, and parents offers lessons and readings that show how to: ~ Analyze the roots of racism ~ Investigate the impact of racism on all our lives, our families, and our communities ~ Examine the relationship between racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism, and heterosexism ~ Learn to work to dismantle racism in our schools, communities, and the wider society.

Bridge
Eunice Hyunhye Cho, Francisco Arguelles Paz y Puente, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, and Sasha Khokha
BRIDGE is a popular education resource of exercise and tools for immigrant and refugee community organizations, and other allies of immigrants and refugees. It features eight workshop modules that include activities, discussion questions, fact sheets, and other resources to help build dialogue, engagement, and shared action within and between communities. BRIDGE also includes educational material on NNIRR’s award-winning video, Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy!

Can We Talk About Race?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
In Can We Talk About Race? psychologist and educator Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of our leading commentators on race and schools, analyzes some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations.

Caribbean Connections – Regional History
Catherine A. Sunshine, Deborah Menkart
An incredible, informative, collection of essays, oral histories, poetry, fiction, analysis, interviews, primary documents, beautifully illustrated timelines and maps and interactive & interdisciplinary teaching aids on the history, politics, and culture of the Caribbean. Sections include The First Caribbean Peoples; Conquest And Colonial Rule; Winning Freedom; and Building New Nations. Includes essential background reading to understand U.S./Cuban relations and the Cuban revolution, plus The Arawaks and the Caribs; Bitter Sugar; African Resistance to Slavery; India to the Caribbean; Gunboat Diplomacy; and more. Big name contributors include Howard Zinn, Jose Marti, Olaudah Equiano, and Medea Benjamin, but like all the Teaching For Change materials, it’s the whole that makes this such a vital, informative, and engaging resource.

Caribbean Connections – Jamaica
Catherine A. Sunshine, Deborah Menkart
Caribbean Connections: Jamaica includes a brief history of the island; Anansi and Brer Rabbit stories; the Marcus Garvey Movement; rasta to reggae; poetry; women's theatre; sociodrama for students; and much more. Part of a highly acclaimed series on the cultures of the Caribbean.

City Kids City Schools
William Ayers
A follow-up to the classic collection on the realities of teaching and learning in urban schools.  Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row, this new and timely collection has been compiled by four of the country's most prominent urban educators. Contributors including Sandra Cisneros, Jonathan Kozol, Sapphire, and Patricia J. Williams provide some of the best writing on life in city schools and neighborhoods. Young people and practicing teachers, poets and scholars, social critics and journalists offer unique takes on topics ranging from culturally relevant teaching and scripted curricula to the criminalization of youth, gentrification, and the inequities of school funding.
In the words of Sonia Nieto, City Kids, City Schools "challenge[s] the conventional wisdom of what it means to teach in urban schools."

Clambake: A Wampanoag Tradition
Russell M. Peters
Steven Peters, a twelve-year-old Wampanoag Indian in Massachusetts, learns from his grandfather how to prepare a clambake in the tradition of his people. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Dear Paulo
Sonia Nieto
Dear Paulo: Letters from Those Who Dare Teach is a heartfelt response from teachers, academics, and community workers to the work of the internationally renowned educator and author Paulo Freire. From newly minted teachers terrified of facing their first day in the classroom to seasoned academics whose work has largely been inspired by Freire, this collection is both a loving memorial and a call to action to work for social justice, praxis, and democracy, ideals envisioned and brilliantly articulated by Paulo.

Do all Indians live in Tipis?
National Museum of the American Indian
If you've ever wondered about where Native Americans came from, whether they really used smoke signals, or if they wore socks, this book has the answers. From clothing, food, origins, ceremonies, and language to love, marriage, art, music, and casinos, DO ALL INDIANS LIVE IN TIPIS? debunks widespread stereotypes and answers all of the most common questions about Native Americans. Accessible and enlightening, this is the perfect introduction to Native American history and contemporary culture.

Embodying Equity
Carla Rice, Vanessa Russell
This manual is the culmination of work generated by the EmBodying Equity Project, which identified effects of racism, sexism, classism, homophobia and ableism, and is intended as a resource for those who wish to address body image problems in their work with youth. The manual includes activities addressing the identity conflicts and equity issues that spring from clashes between girls’ developing bodies and the values of the larger society.

Equity In Early Childhood Literacy (DVD)
Three Washington, DC teachers demonstrate how they promote equity and literacy through shared reading, literacy choice time, portfolio development, music and songs, mobile alphabet, letter and sound recognition, child autobiographical book development and more!

Four Seasons of Corn
Sally M. Hunter
In an effort to continue the traditions of the Hochunk (Winnebago) people, Hunter follows 12-year-old Russell through the year as he learns about his people's special relationship with corn. Russell is a hard-working student in St. Paul, Minnesota, fond of computers, hockey, and football. The cover photograph shows a thoroughly modern boy hoeing in a corn field, dressed in shorts, T-shirt, black tennies, and backward hat?illustrating the balance between the contemporary and traditional that Russell is learning to live, under the careful guidance of his elders. The boy and his family raise their corn on a friend's farm some distance south, where they all participate in the cycle of growing and experience the bounty of the earth. The author uses Indian terms and words throughout the text and explains each briefly without interrupting the flow of the prose: "The next time Russell visits the farm, it is July, called Wa-xoch-wee-dda, or the corn tasseling moon." The book contains legends and history, as well as detailed information about tending, harvesting, and drying the corn. Nearly every page has a large full-color photograph or two that complement the text and make this book particularly inviting. Four Seasons of Corn does much to enlighten readers and dispel stereotypes.

Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message
Chief Jake Swamp
Giving Thanks is a special children's version of the Thanksgiving Address, a message of gratitude that originated with the Native people of upstate New York and Canada and that is still spoken at ceremonial gatherings held by the Iroquois, or Six Nations.

Got Me A story To Tell
Sylvia Yee, Lisa Kokin
Five children from different ethnic backgrounds in the U.S. describe their lives in large text, photos, and drawings. Great prompt for children to write and illustrate their own life stories.

In whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports (DVD)
Jay Rosenstein
In Whose Honor? takes a critical look at the long-running practice of "honoring" American Indians as mascots and nicknames in sports. It follows the story of Native American mother Charlene Teters, and her transformation into the leader some are calling the "Rosa Parks of American Indians" as she struggles to protect her cultural symbols and identity. In Whose Honor? looks at the issues of racism, stereotypes, minority representation and the powerful effects of mass-media imagery, and the extent to which one university will go to defend and justify its mascot.

Ininatig’s Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking
Laura Waterman Wittstock
Describes how Indians have relied on the sugar maple tree for food and tells how an Anishinabe Indian in Minnesota continues his people's traditions by teaching students to tap the trees and make maple sugar.

Just a Little Red Dot (DVD)
When Parvathi, a newcomer from Sri Lanka, enters the Gr. 5 class wearing a little dot on her forehead, some classmates are curious while others express their racist attitudes. The tide changes when Parvathi gives her teacher a package of red dots or bindis, a South Asian cultural symbol, as a birthday present. Fascinated by the symbol on their teacher, the other children rush to adorn themselves with their own little red dot only to be faced with the insensitivity of their peers in the schoolyard. Realizing the hurt and pain felt by discrimination, these children decide they must educate their peers. Together they create an ingenious solution and set out on a mission to challenge prejudice and spread the message of respect and understanding for people of all backgrounds.

Letters to A Young Teacher
Jonathan Kozol
Acclaimed author Kozol began a correspondence with Francesca, a young first-year teacher at an inner-city school in Boston. His letters offer a revealing, heartfelt look at the state of education and his own joy and agony in reporting on it. The letters provoke recollections of his early days as a teacher and, as a reporter, the humbling experience of visiting classes and maintaining relationships with the people on the frontlines of teaching, while he observes and writes. Kozol offers encouragement, advice, reflection, and admiration for all the teachers like Francesca, who pour their souls into their jobs. The letters explore the challenges of teaching in the inner cities: bureaucracies and standardized tests that take the creativity out of teaching; distrustful, defiant children who take away time and attention from those who want to learn; the heartbreaking irony of teaching diversity in schools that are clearly racially segregated. A beautiful book that offers an intimate look at the challenges and joys of teaching and one that will inspire and inform teachers and all those interested in public education.

Love Makes a Family
Kaeser, Gillespie
This collection of informal family portraits and interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parents and their children grew out of a photo exhibit created by photographer Kaeser. Myriad family configurations are presented: gay and lesbian couples, divorced lesbians coparenting, single parents, transgendered parents, and stepparents and their children. From text accompanying the photographs, we learn who these people consider family and why as they speak about their feelings and experiences as part of an LGBT family. The interviews reveal many of the same joys and struggles as found in other families in addition to the challenges of being an LGBT family in a predominantly heterosexual world. Most enlightening are the children's words; some tell of teasing and hostility directed toward them because of their family, while others simply state that they have two moms or two dads and a family is the people who love you.

Making Meaning Making Change
Elsa Auerbach
This unique book invites readers to share their experiences, make their assumptions about literacy explicit, and work together to investigate new ways of teaching. The author describes how adult ESL literacy teachers and students can collaborate so that a literacy curriculum is relevant to students’ life experiences and helps them confront the challenges they face as workers, parents, and community members.

Media That Matters Film Festival (DVD)
Arts Engine brings you sixteen innovative shorts by independent and youth filmmakers from across the country and around the world. These films will make you think, make you laugh and move you to take action. Find inspiration, motivate your students, galvanize your community – there are hundreds of ways to participate all year long!

Moving Beyond Icebreakers
Stanley Pollack
Moving Beyond Icebreakers contains 440 pages packed with insight and ideas about building community, engaging students in learning, and making meetings work. It describes an innovative meeting format and documents over 300 interactive exercises (not just "icebreakers") that enable you to : achieve group goals, build relationships, resolve group problems, teach, lead, motivate, and inspire. The first 130 pages describe how to use "icebreakers" and other interactive methods to help group members make decisions, create new ideas, solve problems, resolve conflicts, and understand new concepts. In these pages you will find a five-part meeting structure that you can use to become an expert facilitator, following an approach that engages both youth and adults in meeting the group's goals. You will also find detailed agendas, lesson plans, and scenarios that show how this approach works in the real world.

Moving North
Catherine Sunshine, Keith Warner
Caribbean Connections: Moving North introduces students to Caribbean life in the United States through oral histories, literature and essays. Moving North features the work of noted authors such as Edwidge Danticat, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Paule Marshall, Julia Alvarez and others who trace their roots to Puerto Rico, the English speaking West Indies, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Haiti. Part of a highly acclaimed series on the cultures of the Caribbean.

My People Are… (DVD)
The film features young performers using drama and dance to express some of the societal attitudes towards multiracial identity, box checking and ethnicity. While dealing with perceptions of themselves and each other, the youth in the film reveal the importance of self identity.

Open Minds to Equality
Nancy Schniedewind, Ellen Davidson
Open Minds to Equality is an educator's sourcebook of activities to help students understand and change inequalities based on race, gender, class, age, language, sexual orientation, physical/mental ability, and religion. The activities also promote respect for diversity and interpersonal equality among students, fostering a classroom that is participatory, cooperative, and democratic. Learning activities are sequenced to build awareness and understanding. First, students, develop skills for building trust, communication and collaboration. They learn to recognize stereotypes and discrimination and explore their presence in people's lives and in institutions. Finally, students create changes, gaining self-confidence and experiencing collective responsibility. This book is an essential resource for teachers, leaders in professional development and curriculum specialists.

Prison Race
Renford Reese
This book is written primarily for those members of the public - including lawmakers - who might be unaware of the damage wrought on U.S. society by decades of counterproductive criminal justice policies. In these pages, two fundamental questions are addressed: Why have lawmakers embraced counterproductive criminal justice policies? What have been the consequences of these policies? Prison Race is a double entendre. During the past two decades in the U.S., there has been a move toward incarceration, and one group in particular has been impacted by discriminatory and unjust corrections policies driven by the promises of politicians to "get tough on crime." Although this book is more about criminal justice policies than it is about race, it examines these policies in the context of their impact on the African American male population. The federal government's extraordinarily slow response to the desperate black victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the surrounding areas has forced the U.S. to examine, once again, its most recalcitrant sociocultural phenomenon: racial bias. The hypothetical suggestion of former U.S. Education Secretary and national drug czar William Bennett that aborting all black babies would reduce the crime rate in the U.S. is reflective of a deeply troubling mindset. The public was shocked and outraged at the callous and insensitive treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib; however, those familiar with conditions in U.S. prisons were not surprised. Multiple human rights violations exist within the walls of our prisons, which are woefully overcrowded. Inmates are given substandard health care, sexually assaulted, warehoused and punished without opportunities for rehabilitation. Prison Race candidly examines prison conditions in the U.S. It also explores, among other issues, the business of prisons, including the positioning of prison guard unions as influential interest groups, the proliferation of prisons, and the role of prison labor in a cycle of capitalistic exploitation. This book integrates survey data and interviews with inmates, parolees, correctional officers, and others to examine one of America's most shameful creations, a Prison Race.

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
Paula Rothenberg
In Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Paula S. Rothenberg deftly and consistently helps students analyze each of these phenomena, as well as the relationship among them, thereby deepening their understanding of the complex ways these systems operate in relation to each other. The result is a reader at home in any number of classes.

Reading, Writing, and Rising Up
Linda Christensen
A practical, inspirational book offering essays,lesson plans, and a remarkable collection of student writing, all rooted in an unwavering focus on language arts teaching for justice. An excellent resource for colleagues, staff development, teacher education, and school libraries.

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice
Ed: Adams, Blumenfeld, Casteneda, Hackman, Peters, Zuniga
The first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice covers six thematic issues: racism, sexism, Anti-Semitism, heterosexism, classism and ableism. The Reader contains a mix of short personal and theoretical essays as well as entries designed to challenge students to take action to end oppressive behavior and to affirm diversity and racial justice. Each thematic section is broken down into three divisions: Contexts; Personal Voices; and Next Steps and Action. The selections include over 90 essays from some of the foremost names in the field-bell hooks, Cornel West, Michael Omi, Iris Marion Young, Gloria Anzaldua, Michelle Fine, Gloria Steinem, Richard Rodriguez, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Michael Kimmel, Patricia Hill Collins and many other distinguished scholars.

Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew (DVD)
Take an in-depth laugh-a-minute tour of complex issues like Native identity, politics and racism, wrap them neatly inside one-liners, guffaws and comedic performances, and you have Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew. This film hilariously overturns the conventional notion of the stoic Indian and shines a light on an overlooked element of Native culture - humour and its healing powers. Meet an engaging cast of characters including Don Kelly, one of Canada's hottest young stand-up comics, whose Indian name means Runs Like a Girl. He uses comedy to skewer stereotypes of the apathetic Indian. Sharon Shorty and Jackie Bear from Whitehorse, Yukon, portray Sarah and Susie, two elderly Native ladies discussing their daily activities and their love of Bingo and Kentucky Fried Chicken. And while they've been making people laugh across the country with their portrayal of two quirky elders, they also play a role as community healers.

Rhythm, Rhyme, and Life (DVD)
Rhythm, Rhyme & Life explores the connection between spoken word/performance poetry and the oral traditions of Africans and African Americans. Shot at various locations in Washington, DC, Rhythm, Rhyme & Life includes scenes from poetry cafes such as Mangos, Bar Nun, Takoma Station and Myth.com, showcasing the DC metropolitan area as a hotbed of literary and artistic expression. Poetry, writing, storytelling, and hip hop are the various art forms featured in this documentary, all woven together in the holistic web of the oral tradition.

Savage Inequalities
Jonathon Kozol
Kozol believes that children from poor families are cheated out of a future by grossly underequipped, understaffed and underfunded schools in U.S. inner cities and less affluent suburbs. The schools he visited between 1988 and 1990--in burnt-out Camden, N.J., Washington, D.C., New York's South Bronx, Chicago's South Side, San Antonio, Tex., and East St. Louis, Mo., awash in toxic fumes--were "95 to 99 percent nonwhite." Kozol ( Death at an Early Age ) found that racial segregation has intensified since 1954. Even in the suburbs, he charges, the slotting of minority children into lower "tracks" sets up a differential, two-tier system that diminishes poor children's horizons and aspirations. He lets the pupils and teachers speak for themselves, uncovering "little islands of . . . energy and hope." This important, eye-opening report is a ringing indictment of the shameful neglect that has fostered a ghetto school system in America.

Social Studies for Social Justice
Rahima C. Wade
Dedication to social justice teaching is important, yet putting one's ideals into practice in American schools is a challenging task. This book goes beyond theory and idealism to fully explore the value and impact of implementing social action and social justice activities in the elementary school classroom. Informed by the experiences of more than forty teachers across the country, this thoughtful resource: (1) examines how elementary teachers, from inner cities to rural towns, use the social studies curriculum to teach about and for social justice; (2) focuses on how teaching social studies for social justice relates to standardized testing, state curricula, and the local challenges teachers face; (3) offers classroom activities and "Reflection Exercises" and "Teaching Ideas" to provide teachers with practical applications for the topics discussed; and (4) includes a list of children's literature books, curriculum materials, and websites.

So They May Speak (DVD)
From the bayous of Louisiana to the Central Valley of California to a border town in Texas, this video focuses in depth on three exceptional educational programs striving to produce bi-literacy and reclaim and sustain cultures and heritage languages for the children of their community. Programs featured are: the state-wide French immersion program in Louisiana; the district-wide Spanish dual immersion program in Ysleta, Texas; and a community based Cambodian after School program in Fresno, California. This video illustrates different models of how a community can educate their immigrant, language and cultural minoirty youth. Each program has changes the lives of many parents, students and community members by making the commitment to connect their youth to their roots.

Soy Bilingue
Cronin, Masso’
A manual for bilingual, bicultural and biliterate early childhood educators. Drawing deeply from their personal lives and cultural backgrounds, these authors offer a rich and illuminating discussion to help us teach, love, and live among young children. And in doing so, they bring forth with power and grace a lesson in integrity for all those committed to transforming knowledge in human development.

Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way
Brian Schultz
What happens when a teacher resists the pressures of ''teaching to the test'' and creates a curriculum based on student needs, wants, and desires? Brian Schultz did just that when he challenged his students from a housing project in Chicago to name a problem in their community that they wanted to solve. When the students unanimously focus on replacing their dilapidated school building, an unforgettable journey is put into motion. As his students examine the conditions of their blighted school and research the deeper causes of decay, they set off on a mission of remedy and repair. It is finally their own questions and activities that power their profound self-transformations. This moving story is a tribute to what determined teachers are able to achieve in the current stifling environment of high-stakes testing and standardization. Anyone who has faith in creativity, commitment, and the deep potential of inner-city children and youth will want to read this book.

Teaching About the Montgomery Bus Boycott (DVD)
First grade teacher Maggie Donovan (former SNCC member)introduces her students to the desegregation of the buses, placing Rosa Parks in the context of the larger community efforts. We see how the lesson involves families, promotes literacy, and culminates with a student-authored play.

Teaching Economics As If People Mattered
Tamara Giecek
The brand new edition of Teaching Economics as if People Mattered, with updated income and wealth statistics, is field-tested by high school teachers. This innovative and accessible economics curriculum looks at the human implications of economic policies. Twenty-one lesson plans are designed to stimulate dialogue and encourage active student participation in the classroom. Also suitable for college courses, formal and informal adult education, and self study.

Teaching For Diversity and Social Justice
Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin
For nearly a decade "Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice" has provided educators a comprehensive sourcebook on the theoretical foundations and frameworks for social justice teaching practice. This thoroughly revised second edition continues to provide a comprehensive, accessible introduction to both the theory and practice teachers need to introduce issues of oppression into classrooms. Building on the groundswell of interest in social justice education, the second edition provides coverage of current issues and controversies while remaining faithful to the original mission and format. In addition to a preface, new material throughout and updated references and resources, the book includes four full new chapters on additional forms of oppression - transgenderism, ethno-religious oppression, racism, immigration, and globalism, ageism and adultism - making "Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice" the most authoritative and definitive textbook on socially just teaching practices. A CD-ROM with appendices, handouts, and more is an added bonus for students and professors alike.

Teaching Science for Social Justice
Angela Calabrese Barton, Jason L. Ermer, Tanahia A. Burkett, Margery D. Osborne
How might science education reflect the values of a socially just and democratic society? Using a combination of in-depth case studies and rigorous theory, this volume offers a series of teaching stories that describe inner city youth's practices of science.

Teaching The Levees
Margaret Crocco
This curriculum, created by educators from Teachers College, Columbia University, takes Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke, as both impetus, touchstone and text for democratic dialogues in schools, colleges, and community organizations. The historical essay and curriculum units that comprise this book are designed to stimulate serious deliberation about the meaning of Hurricane Katrina and the breach of the levees. Discussions of race and class are often avoided in American schools, colleges, and communities. This curriculum aims to stimulate dialogue about these tough issues by posing the questions: Who are we as a country? What kind of country do we want to be?

Teaching to Trangress
Bell Hooks
Cultural theorist hooks means to challenge preconceptions, and it is a rare reader who will be able to walk away from her without considerable thought. Despite the frequent appearance of the dry word "pedagogy," this collection of essays about teaching is anything but dull or detached. hooks begins her meditations on class, gender and race in the classroom with the confession that she never wanted to teach. By combining personal narrative, essay, critical theory, dialogue and a fantasy interview with herself (the latter artificial construct being the least successful), hooks declares that education today is failing students by refusing to acknowledge their particular histories. Criticizing the teaching establishment for employing an over-factualized knowledge to deny and suppress diversity, hooks accuses colleagues of using "the classroom to enact rituals of control that were about domination and the unjust exercise of power." Far from a castigation of her field, however, Teaching to Transgress is full of hope and excitement for the possibility of education to liberate and include. She is a gentle, though firm, critic, as in the essay "Holding My Sister's Hand," which could well become a classic about the distrust between black and white feminists. While some will find her rejection of certain difficult theory narrow-minded, it is a small flaw in an inspired and thought-provoking collection.

Thanksgiving: A Native Perspective
Doris Seale, Beverly Slapin, Carolyn Silverman
“For Native peoples, thanksgiving comes not once a year, but always, for all the gifts of life. All Native nations have celebrations of the harvest that come from very ancient tradtion.” A comprehensive and provocative collection of essays viewing Thanksgiving from the Native perspective.

The Dominican Republic
Anne Gallin, Ruth Glasser, Jocelyn Santana
Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic is a unique reader-friendly overview of the history, politics and culture of the fourth largest Latino community in the United States. This 270-page book includes essays, oral histories, poetry, fiction, lesson plans (for high school and college classrooms) and beautifully illustrated timelines and maps.

The Line between Us
Bill Bigelow
The Line Between Us explores the history of U.S-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, all in the context of the global economy. And it shows how teachers can help students understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life. But The Line Between Us is about more than Mexican immigration and border issues. It's about imaginative and creative teaching that gets students to care about the world. Using role plays, stories, poetry, improvisations, simulations and video, veteran teacher Bill Bigelow demonstrates how to combine lively teaching with critical analysis.

The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
Jabari Asim
Midway through Washington Post columnist Asim's history of the "N" word in America, readers may conclude it should not be uttered by anyone, anymore, for any reason. Essentially, this 400-year chronology is an exhaustive history of white supremacist ideology, showing that the word nigger is as American as "liberty, freedom, justice and equality." He sweeps over this sensitive and contradictory terrain—including black Americans' use of the word—with practicality, while dispensing gentle provocations. Asim notes, for example, that popular civil rights presidents like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson used the N word all the time. Bicycling in Africa in 2004, a young black American encounters a black-owned hip-hop clothing store called "Niggers." Children growing up during the latter half of the 19th century sang "The Ten Little Niggers" nursery rhyme. Asim is at his best when offering his opinion—"in the 21st century, to subsist on our former masters' cast-off language... strikes me as... an immense, inscrutable, and bizarre failure of the imagination." Still, he concludes, the word nigger is indispensable in certain endeavors. His analysis of 19th- and 20th-century pop culture phenomena may too fine-toothed for general readers, but clear, engaging writing increases the pleasure.

The N Word- Divided We Stand (DVD)
Easily the most inflammatory, shocking and historic word in the English language, the N