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Diversity Resources--Book List

Below you’ll find a list of books that have been recommended by SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) leaders and/or distributed in SEED Seminars. This list has been reproduced here with the permission of Tracey Wyman, Director of International Education and Service Learning and SEED Director, at Century College.

•A Choice of Heroes by Mark Gerzon

• A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki

• A Framework For Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne

• A Gathering of Spirit edited by Beth Brant

• A History of Women in America by Carol Hymowitz & Michaele Weissman,

• A Piece of My Heart by Carmen Lomas Garza

• Abeng by Michelle Cliff

• Affirming Diversity by Sonia Nieto

• Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams

• All American Women edited by Johnnetta Cole

• American Mosaic: Multicultural Readings in Context by Barbara Roche Rico and Sandra

Mano

• Am I Blue by Beth Henley

• Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder

• And Don’t Call Me a Racist by Ella Mazel

• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

• Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

• Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation

• Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the

Pacific Islands, Vietnam and Cambodia by Joann Faung Jean Lee

• A White Teacher Talks About Race by Julie Landsman

• Balm in Gilead by Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot

• Barrio Teacher by Mayra Fernandez

• Becoming a Man by Paul Monette

• Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich

• Black Ice by Lorene Cary

• Black Indians by William Katz

• Black Women in White America edited by Gerda Lerner

• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

• Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Body’s Memory by Jean Stewart

• Borderlands/LaFrontera by Gloria Anzaldua

• Born for Liberty by Sara Evans

• Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner by Vivien Paley

• Boys Will Be Men by Paul Kivel

• Braided Lives by the Minnesota Humanities Commission,

• Breadgivers by Anzia Yezierska

• Breaking Ice edited by Terry McMillian

• But Some of Us Are Brave edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Scott, & Barbara Smith

• Ceremony by Leslie Silko

• Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

• Charlie Chan Is Dead edited by Jessica Hagedorn

• Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair

• Color Purple by Alice Walker

• Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson

• Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice by Christine I. Bennett

• Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms by Cynthia Kelly and Mary Oberg

• Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich

• Cuentos: Stories by Latinas Edited by Alma Gomez, Cherrie Moraga, and Mariana

Romo-Carmona

• Daughters of Copper Women by Anne Cameron

• Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks

• Different and wonderful; Raising Black Children in a Race-

• Conscious Society by Darlene Powell Hopson

• Divine Daughters by Rachel Bagby

• Diving Deep and Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest by Carol P. Christ

• Donald Duk by Frank Chin

• The Dream Keepers: Successful Teachers of African-

• American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billing

• Education and Killing of Edmund Perry by Robert Anson,

• Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton

• Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

• The Envy of the World by Ellis Cose

• Expecting Adam by Martha Beck

• Failing at Fairness by Myra and David Sadker

• Fear of Failing by Barbara Ehrenreich

• Female Experience: An American Documentary by Gerda Lerner

• Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America by Geoffry Canada

• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg

• Garbage Pizza Patchwork Quilts and Math Magic by Susan Ohanian

• Gay Parents, Straight Schools by Virginia Casper and Steven Schultz

• Getting Home Alive by Aurora Morales and Rosario Morales,

• Gone to Soldiers by Margy Piercy

• Growing Up Gay edited by Bennett Singer

• The Grass Dancer by Susan Power

• Half and Half by Claudine O’Hearn

• Having our Say by Sarah and Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hearth

• Home Girls edited by Barbara Smith

• Home to Stay: Asian American Women’s Fiction edited by Sylvia Watanabe & Carol

Bruchac

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• Hunger of Memory, by Richard Rodriguez

• I Dream a World by Brian Lankers

• In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts by Elaine Hedges and Ingrid Wendt

• In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker

• In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

• Introduction to Multicultural Education by James Banks

• Jack by A. Holmes

• Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

• Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

• Kwanza and Me by Vivan Paley

• Learning to Lose edited by Dale Spender and Elizabeth Sarah,

• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

• Long Haul by Myles Horton

• Losing Absalom by Alexs Pate

• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

• Loving in the War Years by Cherie Moraga

• Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall

• Making Connections edited by Carol Gilligan, Nona Lyons and Trudy Hammer

• Making Waves edited by Asian Women of California

• Man Made Language by Dale Spender

• Mankiller: A Chief and her People by Wilma Mankiller

• Math & Science For Girls by National Coalition of Girls Schools

• Mathematics and Gender edited by Elizabeth Fennema and Gilah Leder

• Measure of our Success by Marian Wright Edelman

• Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

• Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo

• Moving Violations by John Hockenberry

• Multicultural Education edited by James Banks and Cherry Banks

• Multicultural Literacy edited by Rick Simonson and Scott Walker

• Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

• Nepantia by Pat Mora

• Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker

• No Pity by Joseph Shapiro

• Obasan by Joy Kagawa

• Off White edited by Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell & L.Mun Wong

• On Her Own: Growing up in the Shadow of the American

• Dream by Ruth Sidel

• On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne Rich

• Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit

• Patriarchy as a Conceptual Trap by Elizabeth Dodson Gray,

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paul Freire

• Politics of Reality by Marilyn Frye

• Race, Class & Gender edited by Margaret Anderson & Patricia Hill Collins

• Race, Class & Gender edited by Paula Rothenberg

• Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on

Racism, Antisemitism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism &

Classism by Maruianne Adams, et al.

• Reclaiming a Conversation by Jane Roland Martin

• Rethinking Columbus edited by Bill Bigelow, Barbara Miner & Bob Peterson

• Rethinking Our Classrooms edited by Bill Bigelow, Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Barbara

Miner and Bob Peterson

• Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher

• Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem

• Roots of Bitterness edited by Nancy Cott

• Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras by Marjorie Agosin

• Season of the Witch by Gail B. Griffin

• Schoolgirls by Peggy Orenstein

• Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman

• SEEDing the Process of Multicultural Education edited by Cathy L. Nelson and Kim A.

Wilson

• Silences by Tillie Olsen

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

• Spider Woman’s Granddaughters by Paula Gunn Allen

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

• Sula by Toni Morrison

• Teaching For Diversity & Social Change: A Sourcebook by Maurianne Adams, et al.

• Teaching Stories by Judy Logan

• Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies, 4th Edition by James Banks

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff

• This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

• To Spoil The Sun Tracks by Louise Erdrich

• Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

• Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison,

• Two Teenagers in Twenty edited by Ann Herone

• Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women’s

• History edited by Ellen DuBois and Vicki Ruiz

• Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel

• Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf

• Ways of Seeing by John Berger

• We’ve All Got Scars: What Boys and Girls Learn in

• Elementary School by Raphaella Best

• When and Where I Enter by Paula Giddings

• Where We Stand: Class Matters by Bell Hooks

• White Awareness by Judith Katz

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