Book Club Selections and Procedures

ASSESSMENT

Berliner, D. C., & Biddle, B. J. (1996). The manufactured crisis: Myths, fraud, and the attack on America's public schools. New York: Basic Books.

Darling-Hammond, L., Ancess, J., & Falk, B. (1995). Authentic assessment in action: Studies of schools and students at work. New York: Teachers College Press.

Lemann, N. (1999). The big test: The secret history of the American meritocracy. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

McDermott, K. A. (2011). High-stakes reform: The politics of educational accountability. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. /p>

Pope, D. C. (2001). "Doing school": How we are creating a generation of stressed out, materialistic, and miseducated students. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Ravitch, D. (2010). The death and life of the great American school system: How testing and choice are undermining education. New York: Basic Books. Student Review

Ravitch, D. Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools. New York, NY: Vintage. Review

Ravitch, D. (2020). The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Schools. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Review

Taubman, P. M. (2009). Teaching by numbers: Deconstructing the discourse of standards and accountability in education. New York: Routledge.

BULLYING

Boske, C., & Osanloo, A. A. (2015). Students, teachers, and leaders addressing bullying in schools. Boston, MA: Sense.

DeWitt, P. (2012). Dignity for all: Safeguarding LGBT students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.Greenbaum, S., Turner, B., & Stephens, R.D. (1988). Set straight on bullies. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University Press.

Englander, E. K. (2013). Bullying and cyberbullying: What every educator needs to know. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. 

Greenbaum, S., Turner, B., & Stephens, R.D. (1988). Set straight on bullies. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University Press.

Goodstein, P. K. (2013) How to stop bullying in classrooms and schools: Use social architecture to prevent, lessen and end bullying. New York: Routledge. Reviewed by Thomas J. Doyle, National University. 

Klein, J. (2012). The bully society: School shootings and the crisis of bullying in America's schools. New York: NYU Press.

Miller, s., Burns, L., & **Johnson, T.S. (2013). Generation BULLIED 2.0: Prevention and intervention strategies for our most vulnerable students. New York: Peter Lang.

Orpinas, P., & *Horne, A. M. (2006). Bullying prevention: Creating a positive school climate and developing social competence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

A. F., Reed, C., & Schwartz, J. P. (Eds.) (2016). Creating and negotiating collaborative spaces for socially-just anti-bullying interventions for K-12 Schools. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Smith, P. K., & Sharp, S. (1994). School bullying: Insights and perspectives. New York: Routledge.

Trolley, B. C., & Hanel, C. (2010). Cyber kids, cyber bullying, cyber balance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

DIS/ABILITY STUDIES IN EDUCATION

Abu-Habib, Lina (Ed.). (1997). Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East. London: Oxfam.

Alexander-Passe, N. (2017). The Successful Dyslexic: Identify the Keys to Unlock Your Potential. Boston, MA: Sense.

Annamma, Subini A. (2015). DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education. Teachers College Press.

Barnes, C, Mercer, G, and Shakespeare, T (2010) Exploring Disability: A Sociological Introduction. 2nd edition, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Barnes, C, Mercer,G. (2004) Implementing the Social Model of Disability: theory and research, Leeds: The Disability Press.

Barnes, C., Oliver, M. and Barton, L. (2002) Disability Studies Today London: Polity.

Block, Pamela, Kasnitz, Devva, Nishida, Akemi, & Pollard, Nick. (2015). Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. Springer.

Brantlinger, E. A. (Ed.), Who benefits from special education  (2006). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Chouinard, Vera, & Teather, E. (1999). Disabled women’s explorations of ableist spaces. Routledge London.

Clare, Eli. (2015). Exile and pride: Disability, queerness, and liberation. (2nd ed.). London: Duke University Press.

Danforth, S., & Gabel, S. L. (2007). Vital questions facing disability studies in education. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Davis, Lennard J., ed. 2010. The disability studies reader. 3rd ed. London: Routledge.

Ellis, A. L. (Ed.) (2017). Transitioning Children with Disabilities from Early Childhood through Adulthood. Boston, MA: Sense.

Erevelles, Nirmala. (2011). Disability and difference in global contexts: Enabling a transformative body politic. Springer.

Fine, Michelle, & Asch, Adrienne. (2009). Women with disabilities: Essays in psychology, culture, and politics. Temple University Press.

Gabel, S. L. (Ed.). (2005). Disability studies in education: Readings in theory and method. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Gabel, S. L., & Connor, D. J. (2014). Disability and teaching. New York, NY: Routledge.

Goodley, D. (2010). Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. London: Sage.

Haines, S., Ruebain, D. (Eds.) (2011). Education, Disability and Social Policy. Bristol: Policy Press.

Hall, K. Q. (Ed.), (2011). Feminist disability studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Heumann, J. (2020). Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Gunaratnam, Y. (2013). Death and the migrant: bodies, borders and care. New York, NY: Bloomsbury.

Henderson, B. (2011). The blind advantage: How going blind made me a stronger principal and how including children with disabilities made our school better for everyone. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Heuer, C. J. (2007). BUG: Deaf identity and internal revolution. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. Student review

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, Zinn, Maxine Baca, & Denissen, Amy M. (2015). Gender through the Prism of Difference. Oxford University Press, USA.

McRuer, Robert. (2006). Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability. NYU Press

Metzl, Jonathan M. (2010). The Protest Psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease. Beacon Press.

Mintz, Susannah B. (2007). Unruly bodies: Life writing by women with disabilities. Univ of North Carolina Press.

Oliver, Michael. 1990. The politics of disablement. London: Macmillan Education.

Samuels, Ellen. (2014). Fantasies of identification: Disability, gender, race. New York: NYU Press.

Shakespeare, Tom and Mairian Corker. Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory. Continuum, 2002. Print.

Siebers, Tobin. 2008. Disability theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

*Smagorinsky, P., *Tobin, J., & *Lee, K. (Eds.). (2019). Dismantling the disabling environments of education: Creating new cultures and contexts for accommodating difference. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Stiker, Henri-Jacques. 1999. A history of disability. Trans. William. Sayers. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Thomas, M. D., & Campbell, C. A. (2008). Special ed is down the hall: Disabled & proud. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc.

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. 1997. Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Valente, J. M. (2011). d/Deaf and d/Dumb: A portrait of a deaf kid as a young super-hero. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

FAMILIES

Cigoli, V., & Scabini, E. (2005). Family identity: Ties, symbols, and transitions. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Compton-Lilly, C. (2003). Reading families: The literate lives of urban children. New York: Teachers College Press.

Compton-Lilly, C. (2007). Re-reading families: The literate lives of urban children four years later. New York: Teachers College Press.

Coontz, S. (1992). The way we never were: American families and the nostalgia trap. New York: Harper Collins. Student Review

Hill, N. E., & Chao, R. K. (Eds.) (2009). Families, schools, and the adolescent: Connecting research, policy, and practice. New York: Teachers College Press.

Kabuto, B., & Martens, P. (Eds.) (2014). Linking families, learning, and schooling: Parent-researcher perspectives. New York: Routledge.

Kreider, H., Caspe, M., & Hiatt-Michael, D. (Eds.) (2014). Promising practices for engaging families in literacy. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Leeds-Hurtwitz, W. (Ed.). (2005). From generation to generation: Maintaining cultural identity over time. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Marsh, M. M., & Turner-Vorbeck, T. (2009). (Mis)understanding families: Learning from real families in our schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

Streib, L. M. (2010). Inviting families into the classroom: Learning from a life of teaching. New York: Teachers College Press.

Tannen, D., Kendall, S., & Gordon, C. (2007). Family talk: Discourse and identity in four American families. New York: Oxford University Press.

Taylor, D., & Dorsey-Gaines, C. (1988). Growing up literate: Learning from inner-city families. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Turner-Vorbeck, T., & Marsh, M. M. (2007). Other kinds of families: Embracing diversity in schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

GENDER

Baron-Cohen, S. (2003). The essential difference: Men, women and the extreme male brain. New York: Penguin/Basic Books.

Bausch, L. S. (2014). Boys will be boys? Bridging the great gendered literacy divide. Boston: Sense.

Bettis, P., & Adams, N. (2005). Geographies of girlhood: Identities in-between: Inquiry and pedagogy across diverse contexts. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 

Blackford, H. V. (2004). Out of this world: Why literature matters to girls. New York: Teachers College Press. 

Bryceson, D. F., Okel, J., & Webber, J. (Eds.) (2007). Identity and networks: Fashioning gender and ethnicity across cultures. New York: Berghahn Books. 

Crabtree, R. D., Sapp, D. A., & Licona, A. C. (Eds.) (2009). Feminist pedagogy: Looking back to move forward. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Davidson, J. (2015). Sexting: Gender and teens. Boston, MA: Sense.

Delgado Bernal, D., Elenes, C. A., Godinez, F., & Villenas, S. (Eds.) (2006).Chicana/Latina education in everyday life: Feminista perspectives on pedagogy and epistemology. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 

DiPrete, T. A., & Buchmann, C. (2013).The rise of women: The growing gender gap in education and what it means for American schools. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 

Driver, S. (Ed.). (2008). Queer youth cultures. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Endo, H., & Miller, P. C. (Eds.) (2014).Queer voices from the classroom. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Fair, R. (2020). Southern. Gay. Teacher. Austin, TX: Atmosphere Press.

Finders, M. (1997). Just girls: Hidden literacies and life in junior high. New York: Teachers College Press. 

Gerson, K. (2011). The unfinished revolution: Coming of age in a new era of gender, work, and family. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gómez, L., Horno-Delgado, A., Long, M. K., & Silleras-Fernández, N. (Eds.) (2015).Teaching gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian texts and cultures: Disrupting xenophobia, racism and homophobia in school. Boston, MA: Sense.

Gutiérrez, L. G. (2011). Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the transnational stage. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Guzzetti, B.,& Bean, T. (2013) Adolescent literacies and the gendered self:(Re)constructing identities through multimodal literacy practices. NY:Routledge.

Jackson, S. J., Bailey, S. M., & Welles, B. F. (2020). #HashtagActivism: Networks of race and gender justice. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

*Jones, S. (2006). Girls, social class, and literacy: What teachers can do to make a difference. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Kafer, Alison. (2013). Feminist, queer, crip. Indiana University Press.

Lipman, J. (2018). That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

López, N. (2003). Hopeful girls, troubled boys: Race and gender disparity in urban education. New York: Rutledge.

Lotz, A. D. (2006). Redesigning women: Television after the network era. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Ma'ayan, H. D. (2012). Reading girls: The lives and literacies of adolescents. New York: Teachers College Press. Published review

MacNamara, J. R. (2006). Media and male identity: The making and remaking of men. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Nealy, E. C. (2019). Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition. New York, NY: Norton.

Newkirk, T. (2002). Misreading masculinity: Boys, literacy, and popular culture. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Seidler, V. J. (2006). Young men and masculinities: Global cultures and intimate lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sheridan-Rabideau, M. P. (2008). Girls, feminism, and grassroots literacies: Activism in the GirlZone. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Smith, M. W., & Wilhelm, J. D. (2002). "Reading don't fix no Chevys": Literacy in the lives of young men. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Snyder, R. L. (2019). No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us. London, UK: Bloomsbury. Student review

Spurlin, W. J. (Ed.) (2000). Lesbian and gay studies and the teaching of English: Positions, pedagogies, and cultural politics. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Steiner-Adair, C., & Sjostrom, L. (2006). Full of ourselves: A wellness program to advance girl power, health, and leadership. New York: Teachers College Press.

Taylor, J. M., Gilligan, C., & Sullivan, A. M. (1995). Between voice and silence: Women and girls, race and relationship. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Student review

Thune, E., Leonardi, S., Bazzanella, C. (Eds.) (2006). Gender, language and new literacy. New York: Continuum International Publishing.

Tsuyoshi McGivern, C-H., & Miller, P. C. (Eds.) (2018). Queer Voices from the Locker Room. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Way, N., & Chu, J. Y. (Eds.) (2004). Adolescent boys: Exploring diverse cultures of boyhood. New York: New York University Press.

Weis, L., & Fine, M. (Eds.) (2000). Construction sites: Excavating race, class, gender & sexuality in spaces for and by youth. New York: Teachers College Press.

Weis, L., & Fine, M. (2005). Beyond silenced voices: Class, race, and gender in United States schools (2nd Ed.). Albany: SUNY Press.

Whitlock, R. U. (2014). Queer south rising: Voices of a contested place. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. Student Review

Woodward, K. (2004). Questioning identity: Gender, class, ethnicity. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.

IMMIGRATION, ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS, & BILINGUAL ISSUES

Alba, R. D., & Nee, V. (2003). Remaking the American mainstream: Assimilation and contemporary immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Anderson, K. S. (2009). War or common cause: A critical ethnography of language education policy, race and cultural citizenship. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Artiles, A. J., & Ortiz, A. (Eds) (2002). English Language Learners with special needs: Identification, placement, and instruction. Washington D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics.

Baker, C. (1993). Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism. Bristol, PA: Multilingual Matters Limited.

Ballenger, C. (1999). Teaching other people's children: Literacy and learning in a bilingual classroom. New York: Teachers College Press.

Bauer, E. B., & Gort, M. (Eds.) (2012). Early biliteracy development: Exploring young learners' use of their linguistic resources. New York: Routledge.

Block, D. (2007). Second language identities. New York: Continuum.

Campano, G. (2007). Immigrant students and literacy: Reading, writing, and remembering. New York: Teachers College Press.

Cantú, F. (2018). The line becomes a river: Dispatches from the border. New York, NY: Riverhead Books. Student Review

Cloud, N., Genesee, F., & Hamayan, E. (2009). Literacy instruction for English language learners: A teacher's guide to research-based practices. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Crawford, J. (1989). Bilingual education: History politics theory and practice. Los Angeles: Bilingual Educational Services.

de Oliveira, L. C., & Youth, M. (Eds.) (2015). Preparing teachers to work with English Language Learners in mainstream classrooms. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Faltis, C. J., & Wolfe, P. M. (1999). So much to say: Adolescents, bilingualism, and ESL in the secondary school. New York: Teachers College Press. Student review

Feuer, A. (2008). Who does this language belong to? Personal narratives of language claim and identity. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.

Gándara, P., & Hopkins, M. (Eds.) (2010). Forbidden language: English learners and restrictive language policies. New York: Teachers College Press.

Gibbons, P. (2006). Bridging discourses in the ESL classroom: Students, teachers and researchers. New York: Continuum.

Grigorenko, E. L., & Takanishi, R. (Eds.) (2012). Immigration, diversity, and education. New York: Routledge.

Heritage, M., Walqui, A., & Linquanti, R. (2015). English language learners and the new standards: Developing language, content knowledge, and analytical practices in the classroom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Kanno, Y., & *Harklau, L. (Eds.) (2012). Linguistic minority students go to college: Preparation, access, and persistence. New York: Routledge.

Kim, Y. & Hinchey, P. (2013). Educating English language learners in an inclusive environment. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing. 

Lems, K., Miller, L. D., & Soro, T. M. (2010). Teaching reading to English language learners: Insights from linguistics. New York: The Guilford Press.

Mantero, M. (2007). Identity and second language learning: Culture, inquiry, and dialogic activity in educational settings. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Menken, K. (2008). English learners left behind: Standardized testing as language policy. Clevedon, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.

Menken, K., & García, O. (Eds.) (2010). Negotiating language policies in schools: Educators as policymakers. New York: Routledge.

Olsen, L. (1997). Made in America: Immigrant students in our public schools. New York: New Press.

Orellana, M. F. (2009). Translating childhoods: Immigrant youth, language, and culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Portes, A., & Rumbaut, R. G. (2001). Legacies: The story of the immigrant second generation. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ramos, J. (2018). Stranger: The challenge of a Latino immigrant in the Trump era. New York, NY: Vintage.

Roediger, D. R. (2005). Working towards Whiteness: How America's immigrants became White. New York: Basic Books.

Rong, Z. L., & *Preissle, J. (1998). Educating immigrant students: What we need to know to meet the challenges. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Rumbaut, R. G., & Portes, A. (2001). Ethnicities: Children of immigrants in America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Sadowski, M. (2013). Portraits of promise: Voices of successful immigrant students. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Salomone, R. C. (2010). True American: Language, identity, and the education of immigrant children. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Schildkraut, D. J. (2007). Press "ONE" for English: Language policy, public opinion, and American identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Suárez-Orozco, C., & Suárez-Orozco, M. M. (2001). Children of immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Published review

Trumbull, E., Rothstein-Fisch, C., Greenfield, P.M., & Quiroz, B. (2001). Bridging cultures between home and school: A guide for teachers, with a special focus on immigrant Latino families. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Wides-Muñoz, L. (2018). The making of a dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American. New York, NY: Harper.

Wiley, Te. G., Lee, J. S., & Rumberger, R.l W. (Eds.) (2009). The education of language minority immigrants in the United States. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION/CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Au, K. H. (1993). Literacy instruction in multicultural settings. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.

Au, K. H. (2006). Multicultural issues and literacy achievement. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Au, K. H. (2011). Literacy achievement and diversity: Keys to success for students, teachers, and schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

Au, W. (Ed.) (2009). Rethinking multicultural education: Teaching for racial and cultural justice. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools.

Banks, J.A. (2001). Cultural diversity and education:Foundations, curriculum, and teaching. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Compton-Lilly, C. (Ed.) (2009). Breaking the silence: Recognizing the social and cultural resources students bring to the classroom. Newark, DE: InternationalReading Association.

Delpit, L. (1995). Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New York: New Press.

Delpit, L., & Dowdy, J. K. (Eds.) (2002).The skin that we speak: Thoughts on language and culture in the classroom. New York: The New Press.Published review Student Review

Diller, J. V., & Moule, J. (2005). Cultural competence: A primer for educators. Belmont, CA: Thomas/Wadsworth.

Eberhardt, J. L. (2019). Bias: Uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do. New York, NY: Viking.

Gay, G. (2000). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Teachers College Press.

Gonzalez, N., Moll, L. C., & Amanti, C. (Eds.) (2005). Funds of knowledge: Theorizing practices in households, communities, and classrooms. New York: Routledge.

Hernandez, H. (2001). Multicultural education: A teacher's guide to linking context, process, and content. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall.

Hollins, E. R. (1996). Culture in school learning: Revealing the deep meaning. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Irvine, J. J. (2003). Educating teachers for diversity: Seeing with a cultural eye. New York: Teachers College Press. Published review

Irvine, J., & Armento, B. (2001). Culturally responsive teaching: Lesson planning for elementary and middle grades. New York: McGraw Hill.

King, J. E., Hollins, E. R., & Hayman, W. C. (Eds.) (1997). Preparing teachers for cultural diversity. New York: Teachers College Press.

Li, G. (Ed.) (2009). Multicultural families, home literacies, and mainstream schooling. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Milner, H. R. (2010). Start where you are, but don't stay there: Understanding diversity, opportunity gaps, and teaching in today's classrooms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. Student Review

Nieto, S. (1999). The light in their eyes: Creating multicultural learning communities. New York: Teachers College Press. Published review

Nieto, S. (1999). Affirming diversity (3rd ed.). New York: Longman Press.

Neito, S. (2003). What keeps teachers going? New York: Teachers College Press.

**Souto-Manning, M. (2010). Freire, teaching, and learning: Culture circles across contexts. New York: Peter Lang.

Skutnabb-Kangas, T. (2000). Linguistic genocide in education--or worldwide diversity and human rights? Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stephen, W. (1999). Reducing prejudice and stereotyping in schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

Tyack, D. B. (2003). Seeking common ground: Public schools in a diverse society. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press.

NEURODIVERSITY & MENTAL HEALTH

Arendell, T. D. (2015). The autistic stage: How cognitive disability changed 20th-century performance. Boston, MA: Sense.

Baron-Cohen, S. (2008). Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The facts. Oxford University Press.

Baron-Cohen, S. (2011). Zero degrees of empathy. New York: Penguin.

Baron-Cohen, S., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Cohen, D.J. (Eds.) (2007). Understanding other minds: Perspectives from developmental cognitive neuroscience (2nd Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Cefai, C., & Cooper, P. (Eds.) (2017). Mental Health Promotion in Schools: Cross-Cultural Narratives and Perspectives. Boston: Sense.

Cheney, T. (2009). Manic: A Memoir. New York, NY: William Morrow.

Cohen, D.J. (Eds.) (2007). Understanding other minds: Perspectives from developmental cognitive neuroscience (2nd Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Davis, L. (2008). Obsession: A history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Deisinger, J. A., Burkhardt, S., Wahlberg,T. J., Rotatori, A. F., & Obiakor, F. E. (Editors) (2012). Autism spectrum disorders: Inclusive community for the 21st century. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Gilman, P. (2012). The anti-Romantic child: A memoir of unexpected joy. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.

Hadwin, J., Howlin, P., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2008). Teaching children with autism to mindread: A handbook. Washington, DC: Wiley.

Harrington, A. (2019). Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.

Higashida, N. (2013). The reason I jump: The inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism. (K. A. Yoshida & D. Mitchell, Trans.). New York: Random House.

Hornbacher, M. (2009). Madness: A bipolar life. New York, NY: Mariner Books. Student review

Ikpi, B. (2019). I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying. New York, NY: HarperCollins. [Personal essays on being bipolar]

James, I. (2005). Asperger's syndrome and high achievement: Some very remarkable people. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Jamison, K. R. (1995). An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness. New York, NY: Vintage.

Jamison, K. R. (1999). Night falls fast: Understanding suicide (1st ed.). New York: Knopf.

Kayesen, S. (1993). Girl, Interrupted. New York, NY: Random House. Student Review Student Review

Kennedy, D. M., & Banks, R. S. (2011). Bright not broken: Gifted kids, ADHD, and autism. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Student Review

Kluth, P. (2010) "You're going to love this kid!" Teaching students with autism in the inclusive classroom. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company.

Mooney, J. (2007). The short bus: A journey beyond normal. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Ortiz, J. M. (2008). The myriad gifts of Asperger's syndrome. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Page, T. (2009). Parallel play: Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's. New York: Doubleday.

Paradiz, V. (2007). Elijah's Cup: A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. New York, NY: Free Press.

Pearson, P. (2009). A brief history of anxiety...yours and mine. New York: Bloomsbury USA.

Peterson, A. (2017). On edge: A journey through anxiety. New York, NY: Crown.

Saks, E. R. (1999). Interpreting interpretation: The limits of hermeneutic psychoanalysis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Saks, E. R. (2002). Refusing care: Forced treatment and the rights of the mentally ill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Saks, E. R. (2007). The center cannot hold: My journey through madness. New York: Hyperion.

Savarese, R. J. (2007). Reasonable people: A memoir of autism and adoption. New York, NY: Other Press.

Savarese, R. J. (2018). See it feelingly: Classic novels, autistic readers, and the schooling of a no-good English professor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Simone, R. (2010). Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome. Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

*Smagorinsky, P. (Editor). (2016). Creativity and community among autism-spectrum youth: Creating positive social updrafts through play and performance. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Solomon, A. (2000). The noonday demon: An atlas of depression. New York, NY: Scribner.

Stossel, S. (2014). My age of anxiety: Fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind. New York: Knopf.

Styron, W. (1990). Darkness visible: A memoir of madness. New York, NY: Random House.

Suskind, R. (2014). Life animated: A story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism. New York, NY: Kingswell.

Sutton, M. (2015). The real experts: Readings for parents of autistic children. San Francisco, CA: The Autonomous Press.

Tammet, D. (2007). Born on a blue day: Inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant. New York: The Free Press. 

Volkmar, F. R., & Wiesner, L. A. (2009) A practical guide to autism: What every parent, family member, and teacher needs to know. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Whitaker, R. (2011). Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America. New York, NY: Broadway Books.

Willey, L. H. (Editor) (2003). Asperger Syndrome in Adolescence: Living with the Ups, the Downs, and Things in Between. Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Willey, L. H. (2011). Safety Skills for Asperger Women: How to Save a Perfectly Good Female Life. Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Willey, L. H. (2015). Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Wilson, E. G. (2009). Against happiness: In praise of melancholy. New York: Sarah Crichton Books.

RACE AND CULTURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN

Adger, C. T., Christian, D., & Taylor, O. (Eds.) (1999). Making the connection: Language and academic achievement among African American students. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Alim, H. S., & Baugh, J. (Eds.) (2006). Talkin Black talk: Language, education, and social change. New York: Teachers College Press.

Alim, H. S., Rickford, J. R., & Ball, A. F. (2016). Raciolinguistics : How language shapes our
ideas about race. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Ball, A. F., & Lardner, T. (2005). African American literacies unleashed: Vernacular English and the composition classroom. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Banks, A. J. (2005). Race, rhetoric, and technology: Searching for higher ground. Mahwah, NJ & Urbana, IL: Erlbaum and National Council of Teachers of English.

Baugh, J. (1999). Out of the mouths of slaves: African-American language and educational malpractice. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Baugh, J. (2000). Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic pride and racial prejudice. New York: Oxford University Press. Published review Student review

Brown, R. N. (2009). Black girlhood celebration: Toward a hip-hop feminist pedagogy. NY: Peter Lang Publishing.

Campbell, K. E. (2005). Gettin' our groove on: Rhetoric, language, and literacy for the hip hop generation. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Coates, T. (2015). Between the world and me. New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau.

Delpit, L. D. (1995). Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New York: New Press.

Delpit, L. D. (2012). "Multiplication is for White people": Raising expectations for other people's children. New York: New Press.

Edwards, P. A., McMillon, G. T., & Turner, J. D. (2010). Change is gonna come: Transforming literacy education for African American students. New York: Teachers College Press.

Emdin, C. (2016). For White folks who teach in the hood…and the rest of y’all too. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. Published Review Student Review Student Review

Emdin, C., & Adjapong, E. S. (Eds.) (2018). #HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-hop Education Volume 1: Hip-hop as Education, Philosophy, and Practice. Boston: Sense.

Evans-Winters, V. E., & Bethune, M. C. (Editors) (2015). (Re)Teaching Trayvon: Education for racial justice and human freedom. Boston, MA: Sense. 

Fasching-Varner, K. J., Reynolds, R. E., & Albert, K. A. (2015). Trayvon Martin, race, and American justice: Writing wrong. Boston, MA: Sense. 

Ferguson, A. A. (2001). Bad boys: Public schools in the making of black masculinity. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Gilyard, K. (1996). Let's flip the script: An African American discourse on language, literature, and learning. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Hale, J. E. (2001). Learning while black. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Harris, J. L., Kamhi, A. G., & Pollock, K. E. (Eds.) (2001). Literacy in African American communities. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

hooks, b. (1992). Black looks: Race and representation. Boston: South End Press.

Kendi, I. X. (2017). Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America. Bold Type Books.

Kinloch, V. (2010). Harlem on our minds: Place, race, and the literacies of urban youth. New York: Teachers College Press.

Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African American children. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Lanehart, S. (2002). Sista speak! Black women kinfolk talk about language and literacy. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Laura, C. T. (2014). Being bad: My baby brother and the school-to-prison pipeline. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Lee, C. D. (1993). Signifying as a scaffold for literary interpretation: The pedagogical implications of an African American discourse genre. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Loewen, J. W. (2005). Sundown towns: A hidden dimension of American racism. New York: New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton.

*Love, B. (2012). Hip hop’s li’l sistas speak: Negotiating hip hop identities and politics in the New South. New York: Peter Lang. Published review

*Love, B. (2019). We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Mahiri, J.(1998). Shooting for excellence: African American and youth culture in new century schools. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Morgan, M. (2002). Language, discourse and power in African American culture. New York: Cambridge University Press.

*Morris, J. (2010). Troubling the water: Fulfilling the promise of quality public schooling for black children. New York: Teachers College Press.

Morris, M. (2018). Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. New York, NY: The New Press.

Nasir, N. S. (2012). Racialized identities: Race and achievement among African American youth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Student review

Paschal, A. M. (2006). Voices of African American teen fathers: "I'm doing what I got to do". New York: Haworth Press.

Petchauer, E. (2012). Hip-Hop culture in college students' lives: Elements, embodiment, and higher edutainment. New York: Routledge.

Perry, T., & Delpit, L. (Eds.) (1998). The real Ebonics debate: Power, language, and the education of African-American children. Boston: Beacon Press.

Perry, T., Steele, C., & Hilliard, A. (Eds.) (2003). Young, gifted, and black: Promoting high achievement among African-American students. Boston: Beacon Press.

Pough, G. (2004).Check it while I wreck it: Black womanhood, hip-hop culture and the public sphere. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Richardson, E. (2003). African American literacies. New York: Routledge. Published review

Royster, J. J., & Simpkins, A. M. (2005). Calling cards: Theory and practice in the studies of race, gender, and culture. Albany: SUNY Press.

Schofield, J. W. (1989). Black and White in School: Trust, tension, or tolerance? New York: Teachers College Press.

Smitherman, G. (2000). Talkin that talk: Language, culture, and education in African America. New York: Routledge.

Solomon, R. P. (1992). Black resistance in high school: Forging a separatist culture. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Spears-Bunton, L. A., & Powell, R. (Eds.) (2009). Toward a literacy of promise: Joining the African American struggle. New York: Routledge.

Tatum, A. W. (2005). Teaching reading to black adolescent males: Closing the achievement gap. Portland, ME: Stenhouse. Student review

Tatum, A. W. (2009). Reading for their life: (Re)building the textual lineages of African American adolescent males. Portsmouth: Heinemann.

Tatum, B. D. (1997). Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? and other conversations about race: A psychologist explains the development of racial identity. New York: Basic Books. Student review

Tough, P. (2008). Whatever it takes: Geoffrey Canada's quest to change Harlem and America. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Wallace-Sanders, K. (2008). Mammy: A century of race, gender and southern memory. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Watkins, A., P. (2009). Sisters of hope, looking back, stepping forward: The educational experiences of African-American women. New York Peter Lang.

Watson, D., Hagopian, J., & Au, W. (Eds.) (2018). Teaching for Black lives. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools. Review

Young, V. A.. (2007). Your average nigga: Performing race, literacy, and masculinity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Young, V. A., with Tsemo, B. H. (Eds.) (2011). From bourgeois to boojie: Black middle-class performances. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Young, V. A., Barrett, R., Young-Rivera, Y., & Lovejoy, K. B. (2014). Other people's English: Code meshing, code switching, and African American literacy. New York: Teachers College Press.

Youth of Detroit Collegiate High School. (2018). Forbidden Tears: Stories, Poems & Essays of Trauma from The Imprisoned Voices of Unapologetic Black Youth. Detroit, MI: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

RACE AND CULTURE: ASIAN AMERICAN

Fu, D. (1995). "My trouble is my English": Asian students and the American Dream. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Fu, D. (2003). An island of English: Teaching ESL in Chinatown. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Hartlep, N. D. (2014). The model minority stereotype: Demystifying Asian American success. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.

Hartlep, N. D., & Porfilio, B. J. (Eds.) (2015). Killing the model minority stereotype: Asian American counterstories and complicity. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.

Ko, D., JaHyun, K. H., & Piggott, J. R. (Eds.) (2003). Women and Confucian cultures. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Kurashige, L., & Murray, A. Y. (Eds.) (2003). Major problems in Asian American history: Documents and essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Lee, S. J. (1996). Unraveling the model minority stereotype. New York: Teachers College Press.

Li, G. (2005). Culturally contested pedagogy: Battles of literacy and schooling between mainstream teachers and Asian immigrant parents. Albany, NY: SUNY.

Ma, W., & Wang, C. (Eds.) (2015). Learners' privilege and responsibility: A critical examination of the experiences and perspectives of learners from Chinese backgrounds in the United States. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Maramba, D. C., & Bonus, R. (Eds.) (2014). The “other” students: Filipino Americans, education, and power. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. 

Min, P. G. (2005). Asian Americans: Contemporary trends and issues. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Pine Science Press.

Park, C. C., Endo, R., & Lan, X. R. (Eds.) (2009). New perspectives on Asian American parents, students, and teacher recruitment. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Said, E. W. (1979). Orientalism. New York: Vintage.

Tuan, M. (1998). Forever foreigners or honorary Whites?: The Asian ethnic experience today. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Ty, E. R., & Goellnicht, D. C. (Eds.) (2004). Asian North American identities: Beyond the hyphen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Wu, F. H. (2002). Yellow: Race in American beyond black and white. New York: Basic Books.

Zia, H. (2000). Asian American dreams: The emergence of an American people. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.

RACE AND CULTURE: LATIN

Anzaldúa, G. (1987). Borderlands/la frontera: The new mestiza. San Francisco, CA: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Book Company.

Cantú, N., & Fránquiz, M. E. (Eds.) (2010). Inside the Latin@ experience: A Latin@ studies reader. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.

Denner, J., & Guzman, B. L. (Eds.) (2006). Latina girls: Voices of adolescent strength in the U. S. New York: NYU Press.

Flores-Gonzalez, N. (2002). School kids/street kids: Identity development in Latino students. New York: Teachers College Press. Student review

Gándara, P. C. (1995). Over the ivy walls: The educational mobility of low-income Chicanos. Albany: SUNY Press.

Gándara, P., & Contreras, F. (2009). The Latino education crisis: The consequences of failed social policies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Gastic, B., & Verdugo, R. R. (Eds.) (2014). The education of the Hispanic population: Selected essays. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Gibson, M. A., Gandara, P. C., & Koyama, J. P. (2004). School connections: U.S. Mexican youth, peers, and school achievement. New York: Teachers College Press.

Jones, T. G., & Fuller, M. L. (2003). Teaching Hispanic children. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Kells, M. H., Balester, V., & Villanueva, V. (Eds.) (2004). Latino/a discourses: On language, identity, and literacy education. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Noguera, P., Hurtado, A., & Fergus, E. (Eds.) (2011). Invisible no more: Understanding the disenfranchisement of Latino men and boys. New York: Routledge.

Pedraza, P., & Rivera, M. (Eds.) (2005). Latino education: An agenda for community action research. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Ream, R. K. (2004). Uprooting children: Mobility, social capital, and Mexican-American underachievement. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.

Romo, H., & Falbo, T. (1996). Latino high school graduation: Defying the odds. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Suárez-Orozco, M., & Páez, M. (2002). Latinos: Remaking America. Berkeley: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies & University of California Press. Published review

Valdés, G. (1996). Con respecto. New York: Teachers College Press.

Valdés, G., Capitelli, S.,& Alvarez, L. (2011). Latino children learning English: Steps in the journey. New York: Teachers College Press.

Valencia, R. R. (2002). Chicano school failure and success: Past, present and future. New York: Routledge/Falmer.

Valenzuela, A. (1999). Subtractive schooling: U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Published review

Valverde, L. A. (2006). Improving schools for Latinos: Creating better learning environments. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Education.

RACE AND CULTURE: NATIVE AMERICAN

Cajete, G. (1994). Look to the mountain: An ecology of indigenous education. Durango, CO: Kvaki' Press.

Connell-Szasz, M. (1999). Education and the American Indian: The road to self- determination since 1928. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Deloria, V., & Wildcat, D. (2001). Power and place: Indian education in America. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Resources.

Four Arrows. (2013). Teaching truly: A curriculum to indigenize mainstream education. New York: Peter Lang.

Four Arrows. (2020). The Red Road: Linking Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives to Indigenous Worldview. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.

Gallegos, B. (2017). Postcolonial Indigenous Performances: Coyote Musings on Genízaros, Hybridity, Education, and Slavery. Boston: Sense.

Jacobs, D. T. (1998). Primal awareness: A true story of survival, transformation and awakening with the Rarámuri Shamans of Mexico. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International.

Jacobs, D. T., & Jacobs-Spencer, J. (2001). Teaching virtues: Building character across the curriculum. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Justice, D. (2017). Why Indigenous literatures matter. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Marlow, P. & Siekmann, S. (2013). Communities of practice:  An Alaskan Native model for teaching and learning. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona. 

McCarty, T. L. (2002). A place to be Navajo: Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in Indigenous schooling. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

McCarty, T. L. (2005). Language, literacy, and power in schooling. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

McCarty, T. L., & Lomawaima, K. T. (2006). To remain an Indian: Lessons in democracy from a century of Native American education. New York: Teachers College Press.

McCarty, T. L., & Zepeda, O. (2006). One voice, many voices: Recreating indigenous language communities. Tempe, AZ: Center for Indian Education.

Tall Bull, L. (2007). Preserving our histories for those approaches to literacy in development, ethnography, and education. New York: Longman.

Villegas, M., Neugebauer, S. R., & Venegas, K. R. (Eds.) (2008). Indigenous knowledge and education: Sites of struggle, strength, and survivance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Ward, C. J. (2005). Native Americans in the school system: Family, community, and academic achievement. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

RACE AND CULTURE: WHITENESS

Berger, M. (1999). White lies: Race and the myths of Whiteness. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Bonnett, A. (2000). White identities: Historical and international perspectives. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Brander Rasmussen, B., Klinenberg, E., Nexica, I., & Wray, M. (Eds.) (2001). The making and unmaking of Whiteness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Bush, M. E. L. (2004). Breaking the code of good intentions: Everyday forms of Whiteness. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Dyer, R. (1997). White. New York: Routledge.

Frankenberg, R. (1993). White women, race matters: The social construction of Whiteness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Garner, S. (2007). Whiteness: An introduction. New York: Routledge

Hage, G. (1997). White nation: Fantasies of White supremacy in a multicultural society. Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press.

Hill, M. (1997). Whiteness: A critical reader. New York: NYU Press.

Hill, M. (2004). After Whiteness: Unmaking an American majority. New York: NYU Press.

Howard, G.R. (1999). We can’t teach what we don’t know: White teachers, multiracial schools. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Jacobson, M. F. (1998). Whiteness of a different color: European immigrants and the alchemy of race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Jensen, R. (2005). The heart of whiteness: Confronting race, racism, and white privilege. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books.

Lensmire, T. J. (2017). White Folks: Race and Identity in Rural America. New York, NY: Routledge.

Leonardo, Z. (2009). Race, whiteness, and education. New York, NY: Routledge.

Lipsitz, G. (2006). The possessive investment in Whiteness: How White people profit from identity politics. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Metzl, J. M. (2019). Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Perry, P. (2002). Shades of white: White kids and racial identity in high school. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

Roediger, D. (1991). The wages of Whiteness: Race and the making of the American working class. London: Verso.

Sashedri-Crooks, K. (2000). Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian analysis of race. New York: Routledge.

Young, R. (1990). White mythologies: Writing history and the West. New York: Routledge.

RACE AND CULTURE: GENERAL/OTHER

Alcoff, L. M., & Mendieta, E. (Eds.) (2003). Identities: Race, class, gender and nationality. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Blum, L. (2012). High schools, race, and America's future: What students can teach us about morality, diversity, and community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.  

Bolgatz, J. (2005). Talking race in the classroom. New York: Teachers College Press.

Bonilla-Silva, E. (2003). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Brunsma, D. L. (Ed.) (2005). Mixed messages: Multiracial identities in the "color-blind" era. New York: Lynne Rienner.

Carter Andrews, D. J., & Tuitt, F. (Eds.) (2012). Contesting the myth of a ‘post racial’ era: The continued significance of race in U.S. education. New York: Peter Lang.

Chandler, P. T. (Ed.) (2015). Doing race in social studies: Critical perspectives. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.

Christerson, B., Edwards, K. L., & Flory, R. (2010). Growing up in America: The power of race in the lives of teens. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. <

Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (Eds.). Critical race theory: An introduction. New York: New York University Press.

Delpit, L. D. (2012). "Multiplication is for white people": Raising expectations for other people's children. New York: The New Press.

Everett, A. (Ed.) (2008). Learning race and ethnicity: Youth and digital media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Fiarman, S. E., & Benson, T. A. (2019). Unconscious bias in schools: A developmental approach to exploring race and racism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Fergus, E., Noguera, P., & Martin, M. (2014). Schooling for resilience: Improving the life trajectory of black and Latino boys. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Fine, M., Weis, L., Pruitt, L. & Burns, A. (2004). Off white: Essays on race, power and resistance. New York: Routledge.

Griffin, S. R. (2015). Those kids, our schools: Race and reform in an American high school. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Grineski, S., Landsman, J., & Simmons, R. (Eds.). (2013). Talking about race: Alleviating the fear. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Harry, B., & Klingner, J. (2014). Why are so many minority students in special education? Understanding race & disability in schools (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Howard, T. C. (2010). Why race and culture matter in schools: Closing the achievement gap in America's classrooms. New York: Teachers College Press.

hooks, b. (2013). Writing beyond race: Living theory and practice. New York, NY: Routledge.

hooks, b. (1995). Killing rage, ending racism. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.

Howley, C. B., Howley, A., & Johnson, J. D. (Eds.) (2015). Dynamics of social class, race, and place in rural education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. 

Johnson, R. C. (2019). Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works. New York, NY: Basic Books and Russell Sage Foundation Press.

Landsman, J., & Lewis, C. (2006). White teachers/diverse classrooms: A guide to building inclusive schools, promoting high expectations, and eliminating racism. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Lippi-Green, R. (2012). English with an accent: Language, ideology and discrimination in the United States, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.

Martin, L. L., Horton, H. D., Herring, C., Keith, V. M., & Thomas, M. (Eds.) (2017). Color Struck: How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era. Boston, MA: Sense.

Newton, J., & Soltani, A. (Eds.) (2017). New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance, Volume 2 - Resistance and the New Futurity. Boston, MA: Sense.

Obidah, J., & Teel, K. (2001). Because of the kids: Facing racial and cultural differences in schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

Orelus, P. W. (2013). The race talk. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.

Pollock, M. (2005). Colormute: Race talk dilemmas in an American school. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Pollock, M. (Ed.). (2008). Everyday antiracism: Getting real about race in school. New York, NY: The New Press.

Rodríguez, L. F. (2014). The time is now: Understanding and responding to the black and latina/o dropout crisis in the U.S. New York, New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Rogoff, B. (2003). The cultural nature of human development. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sarroub, L. K. (2005). All American Yemeni girls: Being Muslim in a public school. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Schoem, D. (Ed.) (1991). Inside separate worlds: Life stories of young Blacks, Jews and Latinos. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Singleton, G. E., & Linton, C. (2005). Courageous conversations about race: A field guide for achieving equity in schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Steele, C. M. (2011). Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do. New York: W. W. Norton.

Trainor, J. (2008). Rethinking racism: Emotion, persuasion, and literacy education in an all-white high school. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University.

Wyatt, J. (2004). Risking difference: Identification, race, and community. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES), SOCIAL CLASS, & POVERTY

Carter, N. P., & Vavrus, M. (Eds.) (2018). Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Teaching and Teacher Education: Movement toward Equity in Education. Boston, MA: Sense/Brill.

Carter, P. L., & Welner, K. (Eds.) (2013). Closing the opportunity gap: What America must do to give every child an even chance. New York: Oxford University Press. Published review

Darling-Hammond, L. (2010). The flat world and education: How America's commitment to equity will determine our future. New York: Teachers College Press.

Dunbar-Odom, D. (2007). Defying the odds: Class and the pursuit of higher literacy. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Duncan, G. J., & Murnane, R. (Eds.) (2011). Whither opportunity? Rising inequality, schools, and children's life chances. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Publisher's description

Eckert, P. (1989). Jocks & burnouts: Social categories and identity in high school. New York: Teachers College Press.

Elder, G. H., & Conger, R. (2000). Children of the land: Adversity and success in rural America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Finn, P. (2009). Literacy with an attitude:Educating working class children in their own self-interest. Albany: SUNY Press.

Gorski, P. (2013). Reaching and teaching students in poverty: Strategies for erasing the opportunity gap. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Published review 

Healey, J. F. (2005). Race, ethnicity, gender, and class: The sociology of group conflict and change. Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge.

Hicks, D. (2002). Reading lives: Working-class children and literacy learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

Kozol, J. (1992). Savage inequalities: Children in America's schools. New York: Harper Perennial. Student review Student review

Kozol, J. (1995). Amazing grace: The lives of children and the conscience of a nation. New York: HarperPerennial.

Kozol, J. (2006). The shame of the nation: The restoration of apartheid schooling in America. New York: Three Rivers Press.

Lareau, A. (2003). Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Published review

LeCompte, M. D., & Dworkin, A. G. (1991). Giving up on school: Student dropouts and teacher burnouts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Published review

Lee, V. E., & Burkam, D. T. (2002). Inequality at the starting gate: Social background differences in achievement as children begin school. Ann Arbor, MI: Economic Policy Institute.

Lin, A. C., & Harris, D. R. (2008). The colors of poverty: Why racial and ethnic disparities exist. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Lindsey, D. B., Jungwirth, L. D., Pahl, J. V. N. C., & Lindsey, R. B. (2009). Culturally proficient learning communities: Confronting inequities through collaborative curiosity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Lubrano, A. (2005). Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams. New York, NY: Wiley.

McDermott, M. (2006). Working-class white: The making and unmaking of race relations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Milner, H. R. (2015). Rac(e)ing to class: Confronting poverty and race in schools and classrooms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

*Portes, P. R. (2005). Dismantling educational inequality: A cultural-historical approach to closing the achievement gap. New York: Peter Lang.

Rooks, N. M. (2017). Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and The End of Public Education. New York, NY: The New Press. Published review

Rose, M. (2005). Lives on the boundary: A moving account of the struggles and achievements of America's educationally unprepared. New York: Penguin.

Rosenbaum, J. E. (2001). Beyond college for all: Career paths for the forgotten half. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Sacks, P. (2009). Tearing down the gates: Confronting the class divide in American education. Berkeley: University of California Press. Student review Student Review

San Antonio, D. M. (2004). Adolescent lives in transition: How social class influences the adjustment to middle school. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Schwartz-Nobel, L. (2002). Growing up empty: The hunger epidemic in America. New York: HarperCollins.

Sium, B. (2014). How Black and working class children are deprived of basic education in Canada. Boston: Sense.

*Smagorinsky, P., & *Taxel, J. (2005). The discourse of character education: Culture wars in the classroom. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Smyth, J., & Wrigley, T.. (2013) Living on the edge: Rethinking poverty, class and schooling. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 

**Souto-Manning, M. (2010). Freire, teaching, and learning: Culture circles across contexts. New York. Peter Lang.

Thomas, P. L. (2012). Ignoring poverty in the U.S.: The corporate takeover of public education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Valencia, R. R. (2010). Dismantling contemporary deficit thinking: Educational thought and practice. New York, NY: Routledge.

Van Galen, J. A., & Noblit, G. W. (Eds.) (2007). Late to class: Social class and schooling in the new economy. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Weiss, L., & Dolby, N. (Editors) (2012). Social class and education: Global perspectives. New York: Routledge.

TRACKING

Lucas, S. R. (1999). Tracking inequality: Stratification and mobility in American high schools. New York: Teachers College Press. Student review Student review

Mehan, H., Villanueva, I., Hubbard, L., & Lintz, A. (1996). Constructing school success: The consequences of untracking low-achieving students. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Oakes, J. (1985). Keeping track: How schools structure inequality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Student review

Oakes, J., & Saunders, M. (2008). Beyond tracking: Multiple pathways to college, career, and civic participation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Tomlinson, C.A. (1999). The differentiated classroom: Responding to the needs of all learners. Alexandria , VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Tyson, K. (Ed.) (2011). Integration interrupted: Tracking, Black students, and acting White after Brown. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wheelock, A. (1992). Crossing the tracks: How "untracking" can save America's schools. New York: New Press.

URBAN EDUCATION

Alonso, G., Anderson, N. S., Celina, S., & Theoharris, J. (2009). Our schools suck: Students talk back to a segregated nation on the failures of urban education. New York: New York University Press.

Anyon, J. (1997). Ghetto schooling: A political economy of urban educational reform. New York: Teachers College Press.

Ayers, W., Ladson-Billings, G., Michie, G., & Noguera, P. (Eds.) (2008). City kids, city schools: More reports from the front row. New York: New Press.

Biddle, B. (2014). The unacknowledged disaster: Youth poverty and educational failure in America. Boston: Sense.

Cornbleth, C. (2008). Diversity and the new teacher: Learning from experience in urban schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

Cushman, E. (1998). The struggle and the tools: Oral and literate strategies in an inner city community. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Dance, L. J. (2002). Tough fronts: The impact of street culture on schooling. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.

Duncan-Andrade, J. M. R., & Morrell, E.. (2008). The art of critical pedagogy: Possibilities of moving from theory to practice in urban schools. New York: Peter Lang.

Dunier, M. (2000). Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Published review

Falk, B., & Blumenreich, M. (Eds.) (2012) Teaching matters: Stories from inside cityschools. Inspiring young children in the classroom. NY: The New Press.

Fine, M. (1991). Framing dropouts: Notes on the politics of an urban high school. Albany: SUNY Press.

Fine, M., & Weis, L. (1998). The unknown city: Lives of poor and working class young adults. Boston: Beacon Press.

Fisher, M. T. (2007). Writing in rhythm: Spoken word poetry in urban classrooms. New York: Teachers College Press.

Flower, L., Long, E., & Higgins, L. (2000). Learning to rival: A literate practice for intercultural inquiry. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Grant, G. (2009). Hope and despair in the American city: Why there are no bad schools in Raleigh. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hollins, E. R. (2012). Learning to teach in urban schools: The transition from preparation to practice. New York: Routledge.

Jupp, J. C. (2013). Becoming teachers of inner-city students: Life histories and teacher stories of committed White teachers. Boston: Sense.

Kinloch, V. (2011). Urban literacies: Critical perspectives on language,learning, and community. New York: Teachers College Press.

Li, G. (2007). Culturally contested literacies: America's rainbow underclass and urban schools. New York: Routledge.

Michie, G. (1999). Holler if you hear me: The education of a teacher and his students. New York: Teachers College Press. Published review

Morrell, E. (2007). Critical literacy and urban youth: Pedagogies of access, dissent, and liberation. New York: Routledge.

Murrell, P. C. (2007). Race, culture, and schooling: Identities of achievement in multicultural urban schools. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Neuman, S. B. (2009). Changing the odds for children at risk: Seven essential principles of educational programs that break the cycle of poverty. New York: Teachers College Press.

Noguera, P. (2003). City schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the promise of public education. New York: Teachers College Press.

Sirrakos, G., & Emdin, C. (Eds.) (2017). Between the World and the Urban Classroom. Boston: Sense.

Tuck, E. (2011). Urban youth and school pushout: Gateways, get-aways, and the GED. New York: Routledge.

Watson, V. (2012. Learning to liberate: Community-based solutions to the crisis in urban education. New York: Routledge. 

Weinstein, S. (2009). Feel these words: Writing in the lives of urban youth. Albany: SUNY Press.

YOUTH, HOME, AND COMMUNITY CULTURE

Alim, H. S. (2006). Roc the mic right: The language of hip hop culture. New York: Routledge.

*Alvermann, D. E. (Ed.) (2002). Adolescents and literacies in a digital world. New York: Peter Lang.

*Alvermann, D. E. (Ed.) (2010). Adolescents' online literacies: Connecting classrooms, digital media, and popular culture. New York: Peter Lang.

Bennett, A., & Kahn-Harris, K. (Eds.). (2004). After subculture: Critical studies in contemporary youth culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Black, R. W. (2008). Adolescents and online fan fiction. New York: Peter Lang.

Books, S. (Ed.) (2007). Invisible children in the society and its schools. New York: Routledge.

Campbell, N. (Ed.). (2004). American youth cultures. New York: Routledge.

Cintron, R. (1997). Angels' Town: Chero ways, gang life, and rhetorics of the everyday. Boston: Beacon Press.

Crossley, M. (2007). Changing educational contexts, issues and identities. New York: Routledge.

Dyson, A. Haas (2003). The brothers and sisters learn to write: Popular literacies in childhood and school cultures. New York: Teachers College Press.

Flower, L. (2008). Community literacy and the rhetoric of public engagement. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Foster, H., & Nosol, M. C. (2008). America's kids: Teaching English/Language Arts in today's forgotten high schools. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Gause, C. P. (2008). Integration matters: Navigating identity, culture, and resistance. New York: Peter Lang.

Goldblatt, E. (2007). Because we live here: Sponsoring literacy beyond the college curriculum. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

**Hagood, M. C., *Alvermann, D. E., & **Heron-Hruby, A. (2009). Bring it to class: Unpacking pop culture in literacy learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

Hawisher, G. E., & Selfe, C. L. (Eds.) (2007). Gaming lives in the twenty-first century: Literate connections. Basingstoke, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hermes, J. (2005). Re-reading popular culture: Rethinking gender, television and popular media audiences. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Hill, M. L. (2009). Beats, rhymes, and classroom life: Hip-hop pedagogy and the politics of identity. New York: Teachers College Press. Student review

Hill, M. L., & Vasudevan, L. (Eds.) (2008). Media, learning, and sites of possibility. New York: Peter Lang. Student review

Hodkinson, P., & Deicke, W. (2007). Youth cultures: Scenes, subcultures and tribes. New York: Routledge,

Hull, G., & Schultz, K. (2002). School's out!: Bridging out-of-school literacies with classroom practice. New York: Teachers College Press.

Ibrahim, A., Alim, H. S., & Pennycook, A. (2008). Global linguistic flows: Hip hop cultures, youth identities, and the politics of language. New York: Routledge.

Kohl, H. R. (1994). "I won't learn from you": And other thoughts on creative maladjustment. New York: New Press.

Lareau, A. (2000). Home advantage: Social class and parental intervention in elementary education. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Lee, C. D. (2007). The role of culture in academic literacies: Conducting our blooming in the midst of the whirlwind. New York: Teachers College Press.

Lesko, N. (2012). Act your age! A cultural construction of adolescence. New York: Routledge. Published review

Lewis, C. (2001). Literary practices as social acts: Power, status, and cultural norms in the classroom. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lewis, C., Enciso, P. E., & Moje, E. B. (Eds.) (2007). Reframing sociocultural research on literacy: Identity, agency, and power. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Long, E. (2008). Community literacy and the rhetoric of local publics. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press.

Low, B. E. (2011). Slam school: Learning through conflict in the hip-hop and spoken word classroom. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Marsh, J., & Millard, E. (2000). Literacy and popular culture: Using children's culture in the classroom. London: Paul Chapman Publishing.

Parks, S. (2010). Gravyland: Writing beyond the curriculum in the city of brotherly love. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Rosen, L. (2010). Rewired: Understanding the igeneration and the way they learn. New York: Palmgrave Macmillian.

Sadowski, M. (Ed.) (2008). Adolescents at school: Perspectives on youth, identity, and education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. 

Scott, J. C., Straker, D. Y., & Katz, L. (Eds.) (2009). Affirming students' right to their own language: Bridging language policies and pedagogical practices. Urbana, IL & New York: The National Council of Teachers of English & Routledge.

Smith, D., & Whitemore, K. F. (2006). Literacy and advocacy in adolescent family, gang, school, and juvenile court communities: Crip 4 life. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Smyth, J., Angus, L., Down, B., & McInerney, P. (2008). Critically engaged Learning: connecting to young lives. New York: Peter Lang.

Thomas, A. (2007). Youth online: Identity and literacy in the digital age. New York: Peter Lang.

Thomas, M. (Ed.) (2011). Deconstructing digital natives: Young people, technologies and the new literacies. New York: Routledge.

*Tobin, J. (Ed.) (2004). Pikachu's global adventure: The rise and fall of Pokémon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Toshalis, E. (2015). Make me! Understanding and engaging student resistance in school. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. 

Williams, B., & Zenger, A. A. (Eds.) (2012). New media literacies and participatory popular culture across borders. New York: Routledge

Zamel, V., & Spack, R. E. (1998). Negotiating academic literacies: Teaching and learning across languages and cultures. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

BOOKS ABOUT BOOK CLUBS

Appleman, D. (2006). Reading for themselves: How to transform adolescents into lifelong readers through out-of-class book clubs. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

*Faust, M., **Cockrill, J., **Hancock, C., & **Isserstadt, H. (2005). Student book clubs: Improving literature instruction in middle and secondary schools. Norwood, MA: Christopher Gordon.

McMahon, S. I., & Raphael, T. E., with V. J. Goatley & L. S. Pardo. (1997). The book club connection: Literacy learning and classroom talk. New York: Teachers College Press.

O'Donnell-Allen, C. (2006). The book club companion: Fostering strategic readers in the secondary classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

O'Donnell-Allen, C. (2011). Tough talk/Tough texts: Teaching English to save the world. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

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