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  • Indignation

    A History Of Politics And Race In Evansville, Indiana 1870-1950

    by Kelley Matthew Coures ...
    The political history of Evansville Indiana from 1870 to the 1950s goes much deeper than election results and names of winners. For over one hundred years, the African American population was subjected to a political force that not only prevented social and economic progress in the river city but was also monetized into a monolithic voting block that rewarded political bosses and their patronage. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Out in Evansville

    An LGBTQ+ History of River City

    by Kelley M. Coures ...
    Series series American Heritage
    From arrests and ostracization to public festivals and drag shows, the LGBTQ+ people of Evansville have walked a twisting path to their current existence. In the early days of the city, local newspapers harassed and bullied members of this group, even going so far as to encourage them to commit suicide. A series of murders in the 1950s and 1960s left Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender population of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of Prejudice

    Dangerous Opinions and Beliefs

    by E. N. Anderson, Kelley Coures, Carla Guerrón Montero, Tory L. Schendel-Vyvoda ...
    Series Book 3 - Explanations in the Social Sciences
    Being prejudiced is usually taken to mean having hasty and poorly founded feelings and opinions, usually negative, that are based on too little real knowledge and careful consideration. Definitions, however, are not explanations. The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritically on what we ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice

    by Wayne Au (Editor) ...
    This new and expanded edition collects the best articles dealing with race and culture in the classroom that have appeared in Rethinking Schools magazine. With more than 100 pages of new materials, Rethinking Multicultural Education demonstrates a powerful vision of anti-racist, social justice education. Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp!Book Review 1:“If you are an educator, ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • The Anthropology of Childhood

    Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings

    by David F. Lancy ...
    How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now in its third edition, this deeply engaging book delves into these questions by reviewing and cataloging the findings of over 100 years of anthropological scholarship dealing with childhood and adolescence. It is organized developmentally, moving from ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Making of Americans

    Democracy and Our Schools

    by E. D. Hirsch ...
    From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children.Why, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, do our schools continue to disappoint us? In this comprehensive book, educational theorist E. D. Hirsch, Jr. masterfully analyzes how American ideas about education have veered off course, what we must ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching Controversial Issues

    The Case for Critical Thinking and Moral Commitment in the Classroom

    by Nel Noddings, Laurie Brooks ...
    In this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings and daughter Laurie Brooks explain how teachers can foster critical thinking through the exploration of controversial issues. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments. The authors describe how critical thinking that encourages dialogue across the school disciplines and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People

    by Margaret Morganroth Gullette ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and the APA's Florence L. Denmark Award for Contributions to Women and AgingWhen the term “ageism” was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. As people live longer lives, today’s great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Teaching History for the Common Good

    by Keith C. Barton, Linda S. Levstik ...
    In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students' historical thinking. In many cases, disagreements about what should be taught to the nation's children and how it ... Read more

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  • Schooling the Symbolic Animal

    Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

    by Bradley A. U. Levinson, Margaret Eisenhart, Keith Basso, Gregory Bateson, Caroline Bledsoe, Yehudi Cohen0, R. W. Connel et al1, Emile Durkheim2, Donna Eder3, Julianna Flinn4, Signithia Fordham5, Clifford Geertz6, Jules Henry7, Dorothy Holland8, Margaret Mead9, Hugh Mehan0, Jan Nespor1, John Ogbu2, Sherry Ortner3, Deborah Reed-Danahay4, Laura Rival5, Margaret Sutton6, Carlos Velez-Ibáñez7, James B.Greenberg8, Howard S. Becker9, Dr. Shirley Brice Heath0, Raymond Williams1 ...
    This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Weight of Whiteness

    A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

    by Alison Bailey ...
    Series series Philosophy of Race
    “Check your privilege” is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks

    The Politics of Historical Oblivion

    by Mneesha Gellman ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United States textbooks from the 1950s to 2022, the book documents stories of White victory and domination over Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) groups that disproportionately fill educational ... Read more

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