Diversity Resources

Diversity Office Website

The following Web sites may provide valuable information and other resources; however, some content may not necessarily represent the views of Guilford County Schools.

www.teachingforchange.org

www.tolerance.org

www.gsafe.org

www.pbs.org/race/001_whatisrace/001_home.htm

www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/gender/focus/bodyimage.htm

www.mediathatmattersfest.org

www.centerforlearningdifferences.org

www.theworkinggroup.org

owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslstudent.html

/www.eslgold.com/

Diversity Office Films

1. Race: The Power of an Illusion – Episode One:  The Difference Between Us
2. Race: The Power of an Illusion – Episode Two:  The Story We Tell
3. Race: The Power of an Illusion – Episode Three: The House We Live In
4. The Sonjhai Princess
5. The Children’s March
6. February One
7. Ethnic Notions
8. What’s Race Got to do With It?
9. The Complete Blue Eyed
10. Hip Hop:  Beyond Beats & Rhymes
11. Rabbit Proof Fence
12. "...and nobody said anything": Uncomfortable Conversations about Diversity

Diversity Office Books

1. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present  -  By: Howard Zinn
2. Anti-Racism in U.S. History:  The First Two Hundred Years –  By:  Herbert Aptheker
3. Before the Mayflower:  A History of Black America - By: Lerone Bennett
4. Beyond Heroes and Holidays:  A practical Guide to K-12 Anti Racist Multicultural Education and Staff Development  -  By: Enid Lee
5. Black Wealth, White Wealth:  A New Perspective on Racial Inequality - By:  Melvin Oliver, Thomas Shapiro
6. Dismantling Racism:  The Continuing Challenge to White America - By:  Joseph Barndt
7. Dreamkeepers:  Successful Teachers of African-American Children - By:  Gloria Ladson-Billings
8. Faces at the Bottom of the Well:  The Permanence of Racism - By:  Derrick Bell
9. From Salvery to Freedom:  A History of African Americans - By:  John Franklin, Alfred Moss
10. How the Irish Became White - By:  Noel Ignatiev
11. In the Matter of Color:  Race and The American Legal Process:  The Colonial Period - By:  A. Higginbotham
12. Iron Cages: Race and Culture In 19th-Century America -  By: Ronald Takakl
13. Killers of the Dream - By:  Lillian Smith, Margaret Gladney
14. Lies My Teacher Told Me:  Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong -  By:  James Loewen
15. Man’s Most Dangerous Myth:  Fallacy of Race - By:  Ashley Montagu
16. Other People’s Children:  Cultural Conflict in the Classroom - By:  Lisa Deloit, Herbert Kohl
17. Race:  The History of an Idea In America - By:  Thomas F. Gossett, Shelly Fisher Fishkin, Arnold Rampersad
18. Savage Inequalities:  Children in America’s Schools - By:  Jonathan Kozol
19. State of Native America:  Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance - By:  M. Annette (Ed.) Jaimes, M. Jaimes
20. Strangers From a Different Shore; A History of Asian Americans - By: Ronald Takakl
21. The Color of Wealth:  The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide - By:  Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright
22. The Souls of Black Folk - By:  W. DuBois, Farah Griffin
23. Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?:  And Other Conversations about Race - By:  Beverly Tatum
24. The Journey of the Songhai People:  By: Robinson, Battle and Robinson
25. Black Women for Beginners - by: Saundra Sharp
26. White Teacher - By: Vivian Gussin Paley
27. Racial Diversity and Social Capital – By: Rodney E. Hero
28. The Assassination of the Black Male Image – By: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
29. Du Bois Review:   Social Science Research on Race – By: Lawrence D. Bobo, Michael C. Dawson, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
30. The Trouble with Black Boys – By: Pedro Noguera
31. Everyday Anti-Racism, Getting Real About Race in School – By: Mica Pollock
32. Beyond Resistance, Youth Activism and Community Change – By: Pedro Noguera
33. White Teachers Diverse Classroom – By: Julie Landsman
34. The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists In America – By: Joseph L. Graves
35. Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project – By: Robert P. Moses
36. Bad Boys: Public School In The Making of Black Masculinity – By: Ann Arnett Ferguson