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ACROSS RACES AND NATIONS: BOOK AND RESOURCE GUIDE
From the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis, the Highlander Center and Southern Regional Council.
This book chronicles a four-year project about the growing immigrant population, largely Latino, in the southern U.S. The book contains reports covering impacts and dynamics in local communities and ways groups are working to build coalitions and overcome obstacles. The resource guide contains fact sheets, workshops and resource lists to help provide tools for local communities and groups working on immigrant issues and trying to build coalitions across race and nationality with people in their own communities.
Spiral bound, 372 pages, 2006. Available in English or Spanish. $25.00 |
CRUZANDO RAZAS Y NACIONES: LIBRO Y GUíA DE RECURSOS
Del Centro de Investigación de Mujeres, el Centro Highlander, y el Concilio Regional Sureño
Este libro archiva un proyecto de cuatro años reportando sobre el aumento de la población inmigrante, mayormente Latina, en el sureste de los EE.UU. El libro contiene reportaje sobre el impacto y las dinámicas en comunidades locales y sobre las maneras en que grupos esta esforzándose por desarrollar coaliciones y superar obstáculos. El guía de recursos contiene datos, dinámicas de taller, listas de recursos, y otras herramientas para comunidades locales y grupos lidiando con asuntos inmigratorios que se esfuerzan por construir coaliciones a través de raza y nacionalidad.
372 páginas. 2006. Disponible en inglés y español. $25.00 |
BRIDGE: BUILDING A RACE AND IMMIGRATION DIALOGUE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
By National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
BRIDGE is a tool for all organizers, community groups, educators, activists, advocates, and leaders — anyone committed to supporting the rights of immigrants, refugees, and the communities where we live. Who and what does this “bridge” connect? This workbook contains tools for organizers working with immigrant communities to build alliances and find common ground for action with others fighting for economic, social, and racial justice, and to envision alternatives and resistance in these times of global exclusion, racism, and human rights abuses.
Paperback, 306 pages, 2004. $30.00. |
THE COLOR OF WEALTH: BEHIND THE U.S. RACIAL WEALTH DIVIDE
By Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar Wright, Rose Brewer and Rebecca Adamson, with United for a Fair Economy.
For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. This book explains how laws and government wealth building programs have benefited white Americans and deliberately by-passed people of color. This accessible book shares the asset-building histories of Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans and European Americans.
The New Press, paperback, 336 pages, 2005. $19.95. |
DANCING ON LIVE EMBERS: CHALLENGING RACISM IN ORGANIZATIONS
By Tina Lopes and Barb Thomas.
Visually dynamic, this book investigates how racism, White power and privilege operate in the ordinary moments of organizational life. It offers concrete examples of racial justice work and is a great resource for people trying to create more equitable organizations.
Between the Lines Press, paperback, 416 pages, 2006. $26.95 |
LET IT SHINE: STORIES OF BLACK WOMEN FREEDOM FIGHTERS
By Andrea Davis Pinkney.
FOR GRADES 2-6.
Let It Shine is a collection of short biographies celebrating the contributions of 10 black women who moved forward the cause of civil rights in America. Pinkney presents her heroines chronologically in verbal portraits that capture the subjects' faith, strength of character, and determination in the face of hardships and racial injustice. The subjects - who are depicted in full-page oil paintings - include Sojourner Truth, Biddy Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisholm.
Gulliver Books, hardback, 107 pages, 2000. $20.00 |
THE LINE BETWEEN US: TEACHING ABOUT THE BORDER AND MEXICAN IMMIGRATION
By Bill Bigelow.
This resource explores the history of U.S.-Mexican relations and the roots of Mexican immigration, in the context of a global economy. It shows how teachers, educators and organizers can help people to understand the immigrant experience and the drama of border life, using creative teaching methods.
Rethinking Schools, paperback, 160 pages, 2006. $16.95 |
ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
This book takes you to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches, where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed. Award-winning journalist Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former organizer and field secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), knows the journey intimately. He guides us through Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee (including Highlander), back to the real grassroots of the movement. He pays tribute not only to the men and women etched into our national memory but to local people whose seemingly small contributions made an impact. n essential piece of American history, this is also a useful travel guide with maps, photographs, and sidebars of background history, newspaper coverage, and firsthand interviews. Algonquin Books, paperback, 388 pages. $18.95
PUTTING THE MOVEMENT BACK INTO CIVIL RIGHTS TEACHING
Published by the Poverty and Race Research Action Council and Teaching for Change
This volume provides lessons and articles on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement. As one of the most commonly taught stories of people's struggles for social justice, the Civil Rights Movement has the capacity to help students develop a critical analysis of United States history and strategies for change. However, the empowering potential is often lost in a trivial pursuit of names and dates. By putting the Movement back into civil rights teaching, we hope to help students find their connection to history and learn about the roles they can play in fighting injustice today. The publication includes interactive, interdisciplinary lessons, readings, photographs, primary documents, and interviews.
Teaching for Change, paperback, 558 pages, 2004. $25.00 |
RACE TO INCARCERATE
By Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project.
This new edition about race, class and the criminal justice system offers an up-to-date look at three decades of prison expansion in America. This book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails and the over reliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and social development.
The New Press, paperback, 240 pages, 2006. $16.00 |
READY FROM WITHIN: SEPTIMA CLARK AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
By Septima Clark. Edited and Introduced by Cynthia Stokes Brown.
This first person narrative portrays the story of Septima Clark's involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. Often unrecognized, Ms. Clark developed many Citizenship Schools throughout the South while working for the Highlander Folk School. Then, in the 60's, she worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Africa World Press, paperback, 134 pages, 3rd printing 1999. $14.95 |
UPROOTING RACISM: HOW WHITE PEOPLE CAN WORK FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
By Paul Kivel.
A how-to guide for white people who are willing to work to end racism. The book provides useful concepts for interventions in uprooting racism in public policy, institutional setting, or interpersonal interactions.
New Society Publishers, paperback, 243 pages, 1996. $18.95 |
WHAT LIES BENEATH: KATRINA, RACE, AND THE STATE OF THE NATION
Edited by South End Press Collective.
In August 2005, thousands of New Orleans residents — overwhelmingly poor, largely people of color, the majority Black — were left to face one of the worst "natural" disasters in US history on their own. They were left to die in prisons, in nursing homes, and on the street. Short and accessible, this anthology, featuring such voices as Common Ground, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Suheir Hammad, Jordan Flaherty, and Ross Gelbspan, takes readers beyond the Superdome. It explores the complexity of this turning point in US history as representative of the nation’s direction and priorities. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition.
South End Press, Paperback, 176 pages, 2007, $14.00 |
WITNESSING AND TESTIFYING: BLACK WOMEN, RELIGION, AND CIVIL RIGHTS
By Rosetta E. Ross.
After a chapter exploring Black women’s religious context and presenting early examples of this work by women of the ante-bellum and post-Reconstruction eras, Ross looks at seven civil rights activists who continue this tradition. They are Ella Josephine Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Victoria Way DeLee, Clara Muhammad, Diane Nash, and Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. Ross's major work is engrossing history and moving ethical challenge. Examining Black women’s civil rights activism as religiously impelled moral practices brings a new insight to work on the movement and lifts up a paradigm for engagement in the mountainous challenges of contemporary social life.
Fortress Press, Paperback, 312 pages, 2003. $26.00 |
WOMEN IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: TRAILBLAZERS AND TORCHBEARERS, 1941-1965
Edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods.
The popular image of the civil rights movement is of a struggle composed of men, but women played an essential role at every level. The essays presented here range from studies of individual women - including Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Gloria Richardson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Modjeska Simkins, and Mary Church Terrell - to studies of the school and housing integration fight, organizers in the Mississippi Delta, the Highlander Folk School and South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, and the Free Southern Theater.
Indiana University Press, paperback, 290 pages, 1993. $19.95 |
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