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Book List
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown Year Published: 1970, 2010First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages.
Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warrors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. A forceful narrative still discussed today as revelatory and controversial, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee permanently altered our understanding of how the American West came to be defined.Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen Year Published: 1995, 2007Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important―and successful―history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should―and could―be taught to American students.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
by Beverly Daniel Tatum Year Published: 2017Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America.
Recommended Reading
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Time To Eat: A First Look at Table Manners
by Malika Saban Year Published: 2021New York Times Recommended Books to Explain Racism and Protest to Children
by Various Authors Year Published: Various DatesSelected books below for Ages 0-3, 3-5, 5-8, 9-12, and 12+
The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats Year Published: 1962Saturday
by Oge Mora Year Published: 2019Hair Love
by Matthew A. Cherry Year Published: 2019Each Kindness
by Jacqueline Woodson Year Published: 2012The Youngest Marcher
by Cynthia Levinson Year Published: 2017Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice
by Veronica Chambers Year Published: 2018All American Boys
by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Year Published: 2015Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson Year Published: 2015Get Up for Give Up: How I Almost Gave Up on Teaching
by Michael Bonner Year Published: 2017Building A House for Diversity
by R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. Year Published: 1999The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein Year Published: 2017More Courageous Conversations About Race
by Glenn E. Singleton Year Published: 2012Race Matters
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