ACTIVITIES FOR WORKSHOPS, COURSES AND INSTITUTES
Personal Cultural History Exercise (Excerpt)
De-Tracking the Tracking Dialogue (Excerpt)
Tracking Teacher Expectations and Student Outcomes (Excerpt)
Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform (Excerpt)
What is the Bias Here?: Staff Development for Critical Literacy
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Excerpt)
White Privilege in Schools (Excerpt)
Developing Positive Racial Attitudes (Excerpt)

READINGS
Do You Know Where the Parents of Your Children Are? (Excerpt)
Why Do You Force Your Ways? (Excerpt)
Growing Up Gay (Excerpt)
Understanding the Needs of Youth: "Who ‘You Calling Violent?" (Excerpt)
a B.S. in education (poem)
When the Frame Becomes the Picture (Excerpt)
Dear High School Teacher (Excerpt)
Dear Principal (Excerpt)
What I’ve Learned About Undoing Racism (Excerpt)
Distancing Behaviors Often Used by White People (Excerpt)
"Every one of our teachers believed in us."
Butterflies (short story)

READING BETWEEN THE LINES: CRITICAL LITERACY
Lies My Textbook Told Me: Racism and Anti-Racism in U.S. History (Excerpt)
The Men (poem)
Bias in Children’s Movies: Pocahontas (Excerpt)
So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans (poem)
Arab Stereotypes and American Educators (Excerpt)
Media Myths Contribute to Hunger in Africa (Excerpt)
Tips for Guiding Very Young Book Reviewers (Excerpt)

LANGUAGE
The Best of Both Worlds (Abstract)
Language Diversity and Learning (Excerpt)
Racism in the English Language (Excerpt)
Yuba City School (poem) (Excerpt)
Spelling and Social Justice (Excerpt)
Bilingual Education: Talking Points (Excerpt)
Linguistic Human Rights and Education (Excerpt)

LESSONS FOR THE CLASSROOM

EARLY CHILDHOOD
Activism and Preschool Children (Excerpt)
Redefining the Norm: Early Childhood Anti-Bias Strategies (Excerpt)
Photo Picture Cards: A Key Tool for the Anti-Bias Classroom (Excerpt)

SOCIAL STUDIES AND LANGUAGE ARTS
Students’ Stories in Action Comics (Excerpt)
Para Teresa (poem)
Portrait Poems: Stepping into the World of Others
Mountains of Prejudice; Streams of Justice: The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play (Excerpt)
The Institutionalization of Racism (Excerpt)
The Business of Drugs (Excerpt)
Violence, the KKK, and the Struggle for Equality
The Cost of an Election (Excerpt)
Exclusion — Chinese in 19th Century America (Excerpt)
Angel Island
Paradise and the Politics of Tourist Hawai’i (Excerpt)

MATHEMATICS
Exploring Economic Inequities (Excerpt)
Reading the World with Math: Goals for a Criticalmathematical Literacy Curriculum (Abstract)
The Algebra Project (Excerpt)

SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY
A Question of Biology: Are the Races Different? (Excerpt)
An Issues Approach to Chemistry
A Theme for Biology: Crop Diversity (Excerpt)
Getting the Lead Out
Environmental Racism and Native American Reservations (Excerpt)

THE ARTS
Taking a Stand: Student Led Drama and Dialogue (Excerpt)
Busting Ads with Art (Excerpt)

TECHNOLOGY
Global Learning Networks: Gaining Perspective on Our Lives with Distance (Excerpt)
On the Road to Cultural Bias: A Critique of the "The Oregon Trail" CD-ROM (Excerpt)

SCHOOL-WIDE ACTIVITIES
Cultural Clubs in Public Schools (Excerpt)
School Mascots (Excerpt)
Girl Power (Excerpt)

HOLIDAYS AND HERITAGE
Heritage Months and Celebrations: Some Considerations (Excerpt)
Happy Holidays? (Excerpt)
A Native Perspective on Thanksgiving (Excerpt)
Asian American (poem)
Activists for Social Change
La Llorana: Exploring Myth and Reality (Excerpt)
Where I’m From: Inviting Student Lives into the Classroom (Excerpt)
Negotiating Pitfalls and Possibilities: Presenting Folk Arts in the Schools (Excerpt)
On the Question of Race (poem)

TALKING BACK
Looking Through an Anti-Racist Lens (Excerpt)
Compassion and Improvisation: Learning to Stand Up for Others (Excerpt)
Black History is U.S. History (Excerpt)
Challenging Racism in the News (Excerpt)
Turn Children Away? There’s No Way (Excerpt)
School’s Out: California High School Students Protest Anti-Immigrant Legislation (Excerpt)
Philadelphia Students Protest Bus Fare Hike (Excerpt)
Voices from a School: (Excerpt)

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INDEX