African American
What Would You Do? Race Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kg4DTssWTQ&feature=related
A Death For Dixie (Racism) http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500Death4Dixie.htm
Pariah (movie)
Roots by Alex Haley
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Dream Keepers Gloria Ladsons-Billings
Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness Jane Lazarre
Why are all the Black Kids sitting together Dorothy Tatum
This is my Country, Too John Williams
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Copper Sun Sharon Draper
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achbee
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin
Their Eyes were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrision
Beloved Toni Morrison
Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane
Escape from Slavery by Francis Bok
Annie’s War by Jacqueline Levering Sullivan
The Drug War and Mass Incarceration by the Numbers
Muslim
Arranged (movie)
Persepolis (movie)
Coming to America Bernard Wolf
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
How one MN school district handles a rising immigrant population
Native American/American Indian
Why I’m Not Thankful for Thanksgiving
American Indian and Latino Cultural Evolution
The ‘Real’ Story of Thanksgiving
What Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving? The Wampanoag Side of the Tale
Indian Bummer – Full Frontal Looks at American Indian Tribal Court
People of the Deer by Farley Mowat
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
The Broken Cord Michael Dorris
Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko
Cloud Chamber Michael Dorris
Neither Wolf nor Dog Ken Nerbum
Storyteller Leslie Marmon Silko
Stone Fox by John Reynold Gardiner
Traders in Time by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Almanac of the Dead Leslie Marmon Silko
American Holocaust David Stannard
Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fight in Heaven Sherman Alexie
All my Sins are Relatives William Penn
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie
Two Old Women Velma Wallis
Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver
Love Medicine Louise Erdich
Pushing the Bear Diane Glancy
Solar Storms Linda Hogan
Last Standing Woman Winona LaDuke
Walking the Rez Road Jim Northrup
The Bone Game Louis Owens
Grass Dancer Susan Powers
Mental Illness/Addiction
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576338/Police-fear-internet-cult-inspires-teen-suicides.html
The Secrets of Sugar – Documentary
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison
Keeping Secrets by Suzanne Summers
Club Meds by Katharine Hall Page
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
Street Pharm by Allision Van Diepen
Latino/Hispanic
American Indian and Latino Cultural Evolution
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Amazing Grace Jonathan Kozol
Children of Sanchez Oscar Lewis
Five Families Oscar Lewis
La Vida Oscar Lewis
Holler if you Hear Me Gregory Michie
West Side Story
Asian
This is my Country, Too Jane Schuman
Warrior Women Maxine Hong Kingston
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman
The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan
White
Closing the gender gap: http://www.gallup.com/poll/155696/Evidence-Impact-Closing-Gender-Data-Gap.aspx?utm_source=add%2Bthis&utm_medium=addthis.com&utm_campaign=sharing
SES and Life Expectancy in the Twin Cities
Unequal Opportunity by Kimberle Crenshaw
The Visitor (movie)
Students Learn About Privilege
The Chalice and the Blade Riane Eisler
Intercourse Andrea Dworkin
Life and Death Andrea Dworkin
Laid Daughter Helen Bonner
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire
Bastard out of Carolina Dorothy Allison
A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn
Silences by Tillie Olson (voices of marginalizes women)
GTLB
Rolling Stone Article on Anoka/Hennepin: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202
Paper on disrupting homophobia in the classroom: www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/elementary.doc
Study Says Perils of Adolescence Greater for Gay Teens Article
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
It’s Elementary Talking about Gay Issues in School
MISC HR Information
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns
Harvard graduate’s unique speech goes viral
The Millenial Party – New Age Politics?
Humanae Skin Tones: http://humanae.tumblr.com/
Do You Live in a Bubble Quiz: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/03/white-educated-and-wealthy-congratulations-you-live-in-a-bubble.html
survey (Office Inclusiveness)
T. Friedman “Made in the World”
M. Friedman “No one knows how to make a pencil”
The Day Lasts More than A Hundred Years
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Soldier Bear by Bibi Dumon Tak (WWII)
Courage of the Blue Boy, Robert Neubecker
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
Angela’s Ashes Frank McCort
Tis Frank McCort
Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol
That Used to Be Us , by Tom Friedman
Post American World, by Zakaria
E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
Fathead (movie)