Resources
Selected Bibliography for Anti-Bias Professional Development
Foundations of Theory
Banks, James. (2008). An Introduction to Multicultural Education. 4th Edition, Pearson.
Gay, Geneva. (2010). Culturally Relevant Teaching. 2nd Edition, Teachers College Press.
Hammond, Zaretta L. (2014). Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. Corwin Press.
hooks, bell. (1995) Teaching to Transgress: Education as a Practice of Freedom. Routledge.
Howard, Gary. (2016). We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools. 3rd Edition, Teachers College Press.
Macedo, Donald and Lilia I. Bartolome. (1999). Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance. Palgrave.
May, Stephen. (1999). Critical Multiculturalism: Rethinking Multicultural and Antiracist Education. Falmer Press.
Mihesuah, Devon Abbott and Angela Cavender Wilson. (2004). Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities. University of Nebraska Press.
Nelson, Kathy and Kim Wilson. (1998). Seeding the Process of Multicultural Education: An Anthology. Minnesota Inclusiveness Program.
Nieto, Sonia. (2009). The Light in Their Eyes Creating Multicultural Learning Communities: Tenth Anniversary Edition. Teachers College Press.***
Palmer, Parker. (2007). The Courage to Teach. Jossey-Bass.
Stevenson, Howard C. (2014). Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference. Teachers College Press.***
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. (2017). Why Are All the Black Children Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race. 20th Anniversary Edition. Basic Books. ***
Van Ausdale, Deborah and Joe Feagin. (2001). The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism. Rowman and Littlefield.
Organizational Change Theory
Fullan, Michael. (2009). The Challenge of Change. Corwin Press.
Schmuck, Richard. (1994). Organization Development in Schools and Colleges. Waveland Press.
Senge, Peter. (2012). School that Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education, Penguin Random House.
Sonnenschein, William. (1999). Diversity Toolkit: How You Can Build and Benefit from a Diverse Workforce. McGraw Hill Education.
Curriculum Development
Adams, Maurianne, Ed., et al. (2013). Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism,Sexism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, Classism, and Ableism. 3rd Edition, Routledge.***
Au, Wayne. (2014). Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice. 2nd Edition, Rethinking Schools. ***
Au,Wayne and Bill Bigelow and Stan Karp, Eds. (2007). Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, Vols. 1 & 2. Rethinking Schools.
Ballin, Amy, Jeffrey Benson and Lucille Burt. (1993). Trash Conflicts: An Integrated Science and Social Studies Curriculum on the Ethics of Disposal. (For Grades K-8). Educators for Social Responsibility.
Bazin, Maurice, Modesto Tamez, and the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. (2003). Math and Science, Across Cultures: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium. The New Press.
Bigelow, Bill and Bob Peterson. (2003). Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years – Resources for Teaching about the Impact of the Arrival of Columbus in the Americas. 2nd Edition, Rethinking Schools.
Chen, Edith Wen-Chu and Glenn Omatsu. (2006). Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities. 2nd Edition, Rowman and Littlefield.
Christensen, Linda. (2009). Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imaging the Language Arts Classroom. Rethinking Schools.
Conner, Clifford. (2005). A People’s History of Science, Public Affairs.
Cortes, Carlos. (2000). The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity. Teachers College Press.
Cowhey, Mary. (2005). Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades. Stenhouse Publishers.
Derman-Sparks, Louise. (1989). The Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children. National Association for the Education of Young Children.***
Dilg, Mary. (2003). Thriving in the Multicultural Classroom. Teachers College Press.
Gutstein, Eric and Bob Peterson. (2013). Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers. 2nd Edition, Rethinking Schools.
Harris, Violet. (1997). Using Multiethnic Literature in the K-8 Classroom. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Jones, Guy and Sally Moomaw. (2002). Lessons from Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms. Redleaf Press.
Lee, Enid et al. (2011). Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development. Teaching for Change. ***
Menkart, Deborah et al. (2004). Putting the Movement Back in to Civil Rights Teaching. Teaching for Change.
Pelo, Ann. (2008). Rethinking Early Childhood Education and That’s Not Fair: A Teacher's Guide to Activism with Young Children, Rethinking Schools.***
Roffman, Deborah. (2001). Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent’s Guide to Talking Sense about Sex. Da Capo Lifelong Books.
Takaki, Ronald. (2008). A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Hachette Books. ***
Historical/Social Perspectives
Podcast: “Seeing White: Scene on Radio”. (2017).
Baldwin, James. (1962). “Letter to My Nephew.” The Fire Next Time.
Cary, Lorene. (1992). Black Ice. Penguin Random House.
Cose, Ellis. (1994). The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry. Harper Perennial.
DuBois,W.E.B. (1996). The Souls of Black Folks. Penguin Classic.
Eck, Diana. (2002). A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. HarperCollins.
Galeano, Eduardo. (1997). Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Monthly Review Press.
Gaskins, Pearl. (1999). What Are You? Voices of Mixed Race Young People. Henry Holt and Co.
Giddings, Paula J. (2007). When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. William Morrow Paperbacks.
Gonzalez, Juan. (2011). Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Penguin Random House.
Horton, Myles.(1990). The Road We Make by Walking. Temple University Press.
Ira, Katznelson. (2006). When Affirmative Action Was White: The Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America. W.W. Norton.
Jennings, Kevin. (1994). Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay & Lesbian History for Students. Alyson Books.
King, Jr., Martin Luther. (2010). Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Beacon Press.
Loewen, James W. (1995). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong. The New Press.
Smith, Paul Chaat & Robert Allen Warrior. (1997). Like A Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. The New Press.
Perry, Theresa and Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard. (2004). Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African American Students. Beacon Press.
Weatherford, Jack. (2010). Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. Broadway Books.
West, Cornel. (2017). Race Matters. 25th Anniversary. Random House.
Wise, Tim. (2011). White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Soft Skull Press, 2011. ***
Wu, Frank. (2003). Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. Basic Books.
***Titles we refer to frequently and highly recommend.