Recommended Reading

Race without Racism: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Eduardo Bonila-Silva

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh

Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire

The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibility for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools
Jeffrey M. Duncan-Andrade

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks

Unequal Childhood: Class, Race, and Family
Anette Lareau

Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice
bell hooks

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
Tim Wise

Dear White America: A Letter to a New Minority
Tim Wise

Letters to a Young Teacher
Jonathan Kozol

Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind
Eric Jensen

The Ghetto, Public Policy, and the Jewish Exception
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Ghetto is Public Policy
Ta-Nehisi Coates

This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Other People's Pathologies
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students
Claude Steele

No Rich Child Left Behind
Sean F. Reardon

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
Kimberle Crenshaw

People-of-Color Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery (YouTube Video)
Jared Sexton

Segregation Now...
Nikole Hannah-Jones

Why Are American Schools Still Segregated?
Eleanor Barkhorn

What Applying to Charter Schools Showed Me About Inequality
Conor Williams

When Minority Students Attend Elite Private Schools
Judith Ohikuare

Through Race-Colored Glasses: Preschoolers' pretend play and teachers' ratings of preschooler adjustment
Tuppett M. Yates & Ana K. Marcelo

Race Matters
Cornel West

The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander

Race and Education: The Roles of History and Society in Education African-American Students
William Watkins, James Lewis, Victoria Chou

"But That's Just Good Teaching": The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Gloria Ladson-Billings

The Trials of a Neighborhood School
Steve Bogira

Trying to Make Segregation Equal
Steve Bogira

Are Chicago's Elite Private Schools as Diverse as they Claim to Be
Steve Bogira