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"When Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children was first published, it was heralded nationwide as a seminal new analysis of race in the classroom. It has gone on to become required reading for teachers, parents, and administrators alike. Featuring a new introduction by Delpit as well as framing essays by Herbert Kohl, Charles M. Payne, and Patricia Lesesne, this revolutionary work develops ideas about ways teachers can be better 'cultural transmitters.'...
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"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Black girls represent 16 percent of female students but almost half of all girls with a school-related arrest....
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Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.
The college classroom is inevitably influenced by, and in turn influences, the world around it. In the United States, this means the complex topic of race can come into play in ways that are both explicit and implicit. Teaching Race in Perilous Times highlights and confronts the challenges of teaching race in the United States-from syllabus development and...
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The school careers of two teenage girls who lived across town from each other––one black, one white––were altered by a court-ordered desegregation plan for Durham, NC in 1970. LaHoma and Cindy both found themselves at the same high school from different sides of a court-ordered racial "balancing act." This plan thrust each of them involuntarily out of their comfort zones and into new racial landscapes. Their experiences, recounted in alternating...
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From a respected educator who has advised Hillary Clinton and Cory Booker on scholastic issues.
David Banks knows a few things about at-risk boys. In 2004, he petitioned New York City's mayor to allow an all-boys public school to open in one of the most troubled districts in the country, the South Bronx. He had a point to prove: when rituals that boys are innately drawn to are combined with college prep-level instruction and community mentorship,...
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A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout
Wise Black women have known for centuries that the blues have been a platform for truth-telling, an underground musical railroad to survival, and an essential form of resistance, healing, and learning. In her highly anticipated follow-up to the widely acclaimed Pushout on the criminalization of black girls in schools,...
12) Through my eyes
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960
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