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86 matches found, viewing page 4 of 5, goto page < 1 2 3 4 5 > next page Search Again| Race: The Power of an Illusion California Newsreel 2003 180 min Ages: 14-99 | 
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- www.tng-secure.com/scripts/mcc/catalog/result.php\nA must-see for U.S. residents on the origins of “race” and its impact throughout history. “’Episode 1: The Difference Between Us’ examines the contemporary science ? including genetics - that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits. ’Episode 2: The Story We Tell’ uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the Western imagination. The episode is an eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American social inequalities as ‘natural.’ ‘Episode 3: The House We Live In’ asks, if race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions ‘make’ race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people.”
| Recommended Resources from Teaching Tolerance http://www.tolerance.org/resources | 
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- I have confidence in the titles recommended by this group, and also recommend their website and magazine. They state: “The best tolerance-related resources, from publishers large and small, recommended and reviewed by the Teaching Tolerance staff.”
| Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust Meltzer, Milton 1988 168 p. Ages: 10-Adult ISBN: 0064461173 | 
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- In the horror that was the Holocaust, some human decency could still shine through. Stories accompanied by maps.
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred 1976 276 p. Ages: 10-14 ISBN: 014034893X |
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- An African-American family living in the south during the 1930's is faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
| Set Free: A Journey Toward Solidarity Against Racism. de Leon-Hartshorn, Iris, et al. 2001 166 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0836191579 |
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- Chapters on naming the problem, systems and powers, wholeness, "whiteness," and how people of color and European-Americans can benefit from each other.
| Show Way Woodson,Jacqueline 2005 40 p. Ages: 6-10 ISBN:0399237496 |
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- Jacqueline, an African-American writer, goes back 6 generations to tell about her female ancestors, beginning with Soonie's great-grandma, who at age seven, " was sold from the Virginia land to a plantation in South Carolina without her ma or pa but with some muslin her ma had given her." Sewing, "show way" quilts, creativity, education and the arts are part of the rich heritage traced down through the generations to today. The illustrations, with quilt patterns and detailed historical information, complement the text and create a real treasure. Read this book along with Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne.
| The Skin I'm In: A First Look at Racism Thomas, Pat 2004 32 p. Ages: 4-8 ISBN: 0764124595 |
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- This title encourages kids to accept and be comfortable with differences of skin color and other racial characteristics among their friends and in themselves. Written by a psychotherapist and child counselor with direct language that makes sense to younger kids. Each title also features a guide for parents on how to use the book, a glossary, suggested additional reading, and a list of resources. Full-color illustrations.
| Smoky Night Bunting, Eve 1995 Ages: 5-10 ISBN: 0152018840 |
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- A story about people (and cats) who couldn't get along, until riots brought them closer.
| Sounder Armstrong, William 1969 116 p. Ages: 9-12 ISBN: 0064400204 | 
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- A young boy, with his devoted dog, finds out what it is like to be poor while his father is in jail.
| The Tainos: The People Who Welcomed Columbus Jacobs, Francine 1992 117 p. Ages: 9-14 |
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- Columbus and the Europeans who followed him enslaved the Tainos to satisfy Europe's hunger for gold. This book also tells of the Christian missionaries who provide us a prophetic example.
| There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America Harding, Vincent 1993 472 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0156890895 |
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- A great black river surges in opposition to the powerful currents of slavery and racism: This is black history--American history told well by Vincent Harding. From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the well-known members of the struggle--Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, HarrietTubman--and the anonymous as well. 24 pages of photos.
Harding’s is a well researched and well presented picture of the opposing forces to America's economic system based on slave and cheap labor. He chronicles the parallel between the systems of oppression and the systems of resistance against oppression. The River of resistance will forever run through a society where opportunity is squelched by the formation of inequality. (Adapted from Amazon reviews.)
| Thurgood Marshall: First African American Supreme Court Justice Greene, Carol 1991 47 p. Ages: 5-7 |
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- Examines the life of the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
| True Colors ABC 1989 19 min. Ages: 13-Adult |
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- This edition of ABC'S "Prime Time" follows two men, equal in all measurable aspects except that one is black and one white, as they look for housing, go to buy a car, apply for a job. Reveals the stark nature of racism in the U.S. (Study guide available.)
| Uprooting Racism Kivel, Paul 2002 271 p. Ages: 18-Adult |
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- A book for white people about addressing one’s own racism. Includes: “I’m not a racist”; the dynamics of racism; being allies; the effects of history; fighting institutional racism; multicultural competence.
| Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story of Sojourner Truth Ferris, Jeri 1988 64 p. Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 0876145055 |
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- Traces the life of the African-American woman orator who spoke out against slavery in the north.
| Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Lewis, John and Michael D'Orso 1999 496 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0156007088 |
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- John Lewis is an American hero, a modest man from the most humble of beginnings who left a rural Alabama cotton farm 40 years ago and strode into the forefront of the civil rights movement. One of the young people who brought the teachings of Ghandi and King to the lunch counters of Nashville in 1960, Lewis suffered taunts and threats, beatings and arrests. He spoke at the historic 1963 March on Washington and became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The nation, tuned to the nightly news, watched in horror as state troopers clubbed him viciously, fracturing his skull as he led a march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Today, he's the only member of Congress who can be proud of having been carried off to jail more than 40 times. With the help of a collaborator, journalist Michael D'Orso, Lewis' Walking with the Wind is a deeply moving personal memoir that skillfully balances the intimate and touching recollections of the deeply thoughtful Lewis with the intense national drama that was the civil rights movement.
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963: A Novel Curtis, Christopher 1995 210p. Ages: 11-15 ISBN: 0440414121 |
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- The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, and African-American family living in Flint, MI, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in AL in the summer of 1963.
| We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know Howard, Gary R. 1999 160 p. |
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- Through stories and analysis, Howard looks to his own identity to discover what it means to be culturally competent "white" teachers in racially diverse schools. Author draws from 25 years of experience as a multicultural educator as well as from collaboration with students and colleagues from many cultures.
| The Well: David's Story Taylor, Mildred 1995 92 p. Ages: 9-14 ISBN: 0140386424 |
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- In Mississippi in the early 1900's ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
| What Are You? Gaskins, Pearl, ed. 1999 192 p. |
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- Through the lively voices of 45 young people, ages 14-26, this book helps us to begin to understand how it feels to grow up outside traditional racial boundaries
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