Hello, friends.

I'm doing a bit of a poll. It's very simple. Please send me what you believe to be the 10 (or up to 10) most important books related to equity, social
justice, and/or multicultural education.  Feel free to think outside the box. The books don't have to be about
education explicitly and they don't even have to be non-fiction. But I'm
hoping for books that push boundaries, that aren't, in essence, "soft,"
celebrating diversity sorts of things.

As an example, I'm listing 5 of the books that have been most inspirational
to my work below.

Thanks for your input,

Paul

1. Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua
2. Multicultural Education as Social Activism by Christine Sleeter
3. John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois
4. The Critical Pedagogy Reader by Antonia Darder (Ed.)
5. Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader by Adrien
Katharine Wing (Ed.)
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1. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
2. Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol
3. Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson
4. A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
5. Affirming Diversity by Sonia Nieto
6. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
7. Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
8. A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
9. Burro Genius by Victor Villasenor
10. Readings for Diversity and Social Justice editors Maurianne Adams,
Warren Blumenfeld, Rosie Castaneda, Heather Hackman, Madeline Peters, Ximena
Zuniga

Thanks for the question!

Lisa M. Weinbaum
Las Cruces Public Schools
New Mexico Organizer - National Association for Multicultural Education

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1. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond
2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paolo Freire
3. America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Culture, and
Education, by Henry Giroux
4. Deschooling of Society, by Ivan Illich
5. Savage Inequalities, by Jonathan Kozol
6. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook
Got Wrong, by James Loewen
7. Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality, by Joel Spring

Elaine Haglund
Calif. State Univ., Long Beach

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1. The ABC Task Force anti-bias curriculum: Tools for empowering young
children. NAEYC. http://www.naeyc.org
2. The Affective curriculum: Teaching the anti-bias approach to young
children. Valerie Rhomberg and Nadia Hall. Nelson Canada.
3. Challenging racism in the arts by Frances Henry and Carol Tator.
http://www.yorku.ca/fhenry/racisminthearts.htm
4. Selling illusions: The Cult of multiculturalism by Neil Bissoondath
Penguin Books. 1994.
5. The House of Commons. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
Book Four, The Cultural Contribution of Other Ethnic Groups.  Queen's
Printer for Canada.
6. Rethinking ethnocultural relations in Canada by Will Kymlicka. Oxford
Press. 1998.
7. Include me too: Human diversity in early childhood. Ed by Kenise Murphy
Kilbride. 1998.
8. The Secret mitzvah of Lucio Burke by Stephen Hayward.
http://www.randomhouse.ca/newface/hayward.php
9.Stephen Lewis report on racism in Ontario. Report to the Premier of
Ontario, Summer 1992.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6174/lewis.html
10 The Diary of Anne Frank.

ZS Worotynec
Kitchener, Ontario

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1. Children in Danger, by: James Garbarino, Nancy Dubrow, Kathleen Kostelny, and Carole Pardo
2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paolo Freire
3. Savage Inequalities, by Jonathan Kozol
4. Ways with Words, by Shirley Brice Heath
5. Warriors Don't Cry, by Melba Patillo Beals
6. The Children, by David Halberstam
7. The Power of Community, by Concha Delgado Gaitan
8. Makes me Wanna Holler, by Nathan McCall
9. A Path to Follow: Learning to Listen to Parents, by Patricia A. Edwards
10. "Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Janet Morrison, Ed.D.

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1. Just War - Howard Zinn
2. Green Parrots - Gino Strada

Anne Verrier Scatolini 

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1. The first R: How children learn race and racism/, by D. Van Ausdale
and J. R. Feagin
2.Working across cultures/, J. Hooker
3.Anti-bias curriculum/, L. Derman-Sparks and the ABC Task Force
4.Confronting our discomfort: Clearing the way for anti-bias in early
childhood/, T. Jacobson
5.We can't teach what we don't know: White teachers, multiracial
schools, /G. R. Howard
6.Cultural etiquette: A guide for the well intentioned,/ Amoja Three Rivers
7.For every child: the rights of the child in words and pictures/ C. Castle
8.A world of babies: Imagined childcare guides for seven societies/ J.
Deloache, A. Gottlieb
9.Kids:How biology and culture shape the way we raise our children/
M.F. Small
10.The cultural nature of human development /B. Rogoff
11. Privilege: A reader edited by Kimmel and Ferber - 28 accessible essays written about privilege-great starting points for students to think about their part in the mosaic...a beginning reader

Rachel Friedman

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1. Affirming Diversity/Dr. Sonia Nieto
2. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice/ Maurianne Adams, et al.
3. Rethinking Our Classroom/ Rethinking Schools
4. Countering the Urban Influence/Edward DeJesus
5. Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders/Randall Lindsey, Kikanza Nuri Robins, Raymond Terrell
6. Reading, Writing and Rising Up/Linda Christensen
7. Rethinking Mathematics/Eric Gutstein
8. We Can't Teach What We Don't Know/Gary Howard
9. Pedagogy of Hope, Paulo Friere
10. Teaching for Community, bell hooks

Talitha Abramsen

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1. The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public
Schools - David Berliner & Bruce Biddle
2. The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children -
Gloria Ladson-Billings
3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
4. High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform
- Pauline Lipman
5. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools - Jonathan Kozol
6. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom - bell hooks
7. Walking the Road: Race, Diversity, and Social Justice in Teacher Education
- Marilyn Cochran-Smith
8. Becoming a Critical Educator: Defining a Classroom Identity, Designing a
Critical Pedagogy - Patricia Hinchey
9. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change - Ira Shor
10. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other
Conversations about Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum

And I'd like to plug Deborah Stone's "Policy Paradox: The Art of Political
Decision Marking," which has enabled me time and again to frame many of the
issues addressed in my list.

Matt Laliberte

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1. Creating a World That Works For All Sharif Abdullah
2. The Impossible Will Take a Little While Paul Loeb
3. The American Mosaic Carnvale, Stone
4. A Different Mirror Takaki
5. A People's History of the U.S. Zinn
6. White Privilege Rothenberg
7. The Inclusion Breakthrough Katz and Miller
8. No Excuses Thernstrom
9. Uprooting Racism Paul Kivel
10. You Call this a Democracy? Paul Kivel
11. Class Paul Fussell
12. Teaching for Diversty and Social Justice ( companion to Readings) Adams, Bell, Griffin
13. Faculty Diversity Moody
14. Sitting on the Fire Arnold Mindell
15. Courageous Conversations Singleton and Linton
16. White Like Me Tim Wise
17. Malcom X Alex Haley

Margaretha Finefrock
The Learning Project
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1. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies - Gloria T. (edt) Hull- 1986
2. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass - Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton- 1994
3. Black Skin: White Masks - Frantz Fanon 1991
4. Killing Rage: Ending Racism - bell hooks-1995
5. Malcolm X Speaks - George Breitman (edt) 1965
6. Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire-1996
7. Race is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life - Janet Helms-1992
8. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Audre Lorde-1984
9. The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life - Manning Marable- 2002
10. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America -
Jonathan Kozol 2005
11. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America - Ira Katznelson 2005
12. You Call This a Democracy?: Who Benefits, Who Pays and Who Really Decides? b-
Paul Kivel 2004
13 The Color of Wealth, The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide
By Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, Rebecca Adamson
The New Press, 2006

Sandy Bernabei
www.antiracistalliance.com

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1. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
2. Becoming Old Stock: the Paradox of German-American Identity by Russel Kazal

Antje Petty
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Orientalism - by Edward Said

Kenneth K. Ayouby
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 1)  The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
 2)  Culturally Responsive Teaching by Geneva Gay
 3)  Life in Schools by Peter McLaren
 4)  "Why are all the Black Kids..." by Beverly Daniel Tatum
 5)  Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
 6)  Holler if you hear me by Gregory Mitchie
 7)  Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson Billings
 8)  Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
 9)  The Shape of the River by Bowen and Derek Bok
 10) City Schools and the American Dream by Pedro Noguera

 Taharee Jackson, Emory University

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Here's a more domain specific list for science and multiculturalism, I'm not wed to this order at all,
and I've tried to include both generally agreed upon touchstone works as well as important works that are probably less well known in education, but are key texts in anthro and soc of science.

1. Haraway, Modestwitness@...
2. Hess, Science & Technology in a Multicultural World
3. Jones, Bad Blood
4. Epstein, Impure science
5. Nader, Naked Science
6. Tapper, In the blood
7. Briggs, Stories in the time of cholera
8. Reverby, Tuskegee Truths
9. Harding, Racial economy of science
10. Bass, Camping with the prince
11. Gieryn, Cultural boundaries of science
12. Bowker & Star, Sorting things out
13. Gould, Mismeasure of man
14. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, & Women
15. Stacey, Teratologies

Matthew Weinstein
U.W. - Tacoma

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Life in Schools. by Peter McLaren

Brad Porfilio
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 1)  Overcoming Our Racism by Derald Wing Sue
 2)  Culturally Responsive Teaching by Geneva Gay
 3)  Ordinary Resurrections by Jonathan Kozol
 4)  "Why are all the Black Kids" by Beverly Daniel Tatum
 5)  Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
 6)  Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel
 7)  Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson Billings
 8)  Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
 9)  Pedagogy of the Oppressed- P. Freire
 10) There Are No Children Here - Alex Kotlowitz

Clarice R. Ford
Director of Teaching Pathways
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2006, Banks, James S.
Cultural Diversity and Education / Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching

2002, Cummins, Jim.
Language, Power and Pedagogy.

2004, Diuguid, Lewis W.
A Teacher's Cry / Expose the Truth About Education Today

2005, Follmi, Danielle & Olivier (eds).
Origins / African Wisdom for Everyday

2002, Guinier, Lani and Torres, Gerald.
The Miner's Canary / Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming
Democracy

1991, Heat-Moon, William Least.
PrairyErth / a deep map

2005, Kozol, Jonathan
The Shame of the Nation / The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in
America

2003, Lawson, Steven F.
Civil Rights Crossroads / Nation, Community, and The Black Freedom
Struggle

1999, McAuliffe, Jr., Dennis
Bloodland / A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage
Reservation

2004, Pollock, Mica
Colormute / Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School

2002, Wu, Frank H.
Yellow / Race in American Beyond Black and White

1988 (there is a more recent edition), Wurzel, Jaime S. (ed)
Toward Multiculturalism / A Reader in Multicultural Education

Dennis Swender
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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed- P. Freire
2. Culturally Responsive Teaching by Geneva Gay
3. "Why are all the Black Kids..." by Beverly Daniel Tatum
4. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
5. Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
6. The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning
Communities by Sonia Nieto

Margo Isabel 

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Baldwin, James, No Name in the Street (New York: Doubleday, 1972).

Brown, Steven E., Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars: Essays on the
Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride (New York: People
with Disabilities Press, 2003).

Charlton, James I., Nothing about Us Without Us: Disability
Oppression and Empowerment (Berkeley: California, 1998).

Gallagher, Hugh Gregory, By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians and
the License to Kill in the Third Reich (New York: Henry Holt, 1990).

Guter, Bob and John R. Killacky, eds., Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men
and their Stories (Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park, 2004).

Hevey, David, The Creatures Time Forgot: Photography and Disability
Imagery (London: Routledge, 1992).

Linton, Simi, Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (New York:
New York University, 1998).

Longmore, Paul K., Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
(Philadelphia: Temple, 2003).

Lorde, Audre, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Freedom, CA:
Crossing Press, 1984).

Walker, Pamela Kay, Moving Over the Edge: Artists with Disabilities
Take the Leap (MH Media, PO Box 687, Davis, CA 95617, 2005).


Steven E. Brown
Editor, Review of Disability Studies, www.rds.hawaii.edu

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1) White Privilege, Paula Rothenberg, editor
2) Culturally Responsive Teaching by Geneva Gay
3) Closing the Achievement Gap, Belinda Willams, editor
4) "Why are all the Black Kids..." by Beverly Daniel Tatum
5) Light in Their Eyes by Sonia Nieto
6) Campus and Community by Carl Grant and Christene Sleeter
7) Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson Billings
8) Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit
9) A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki
10) City Kids, City Teachers--Wiliam Ayers and Patricia Ford, editors

Peg Lonnquist
Hamline University
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