Resources


books

Barr, D. A. (2014). Health disparities in the United States: Social class, race, ethnicity, and health. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Barratt, W. (2011). Social class on campus: Theories and manifestations. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC

Doyle, T., & Zakrajsek, T. (2013). The new science of learning: How to learn in harmony with your brain. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus.

Dweck, C. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.

Hanscom, A. J. (2016). Balanced and barefoot. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

Hinchey, P. H., & Konkol, P. J. (2018). Getting to where we meant to be: Working toward the educational world we imagine/d. Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press.

Jack, A. A. (2019). The privileged poor: How elite colleges are failing disadvantaged students. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Jones, S. P., & Sheffield, E. C. (Eds.) (2018). Why kids love (and hate) school: Reflections on difference. (Academic for Educational Studies Book Series). Myers Education Press. 

Kendi, I. X. (2016). Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America. New York, NY: Nation Books.

Love, B. L. (2019). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Morris, M. W. (2016). Pushout: The criminalization of black girls in schools. New York: The New Press.

Mullainathan, S., & Shafir, E. (2013). Scarcity: The new science of having less and how it defines our lives. New York, NY: Picador/Henry Holt.

Perry, B. D., & Szalavitz, M. (2017). The boy who was raised as a dog: What traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing. New York: Basic Books.

Rodriguez, R. (1982). The hunger of memory: The education of Richard Rodriguez. New York, NY: Bantam Books.

Ryan, C. L., & Hermann-Wilmarth, J. M. (2018). Reading the rainbow: LGBTQ-inclusive literacy instruction in the elementary classroom. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Santoro, D. A., & Berliner, D. C. (2018). Demoralized: Why teachers leave the profession they love and how they can stay. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Shalaby, C. (2017). Troublemakers: Lessons in freedom from young children at school. New York, NY: The New Press.

Steele, C. M. (2010). Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Stillman, J., & Anderson, L. (2017). Teaching for equity in complex times: Negotiating standards in a high-performing bilingual school. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Strayhorn, T. L. (2012). College students’ sense of belonging: A key to educational success for all students. New York, NY: Routledge.

Strazzabosco, J. (2018). Ninety feet under: What poverty does to people. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Word & Deed Publishing Incorporated.

Sue, Derald Wing. (2010). Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Tatum, B. D. (2017). “Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” and other conversations about race. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Verschelden, C. (2017). Bandwidth recovery: Helping students reclaim cognitive resources lost to poverty, racism, and social marginalization. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC

Walton, G. M., & Cohen, G. L. (2007). A question of belonging: Race, social fit, and achievement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 82–96.

Walton, G. M., & Cohen, G. L. (2011). A brief social-belonging intervention improves academic and health outcomes among minority students. Science, 331(6023), 1447–1451.

Watson, J. R. (1988). Neurobics. Retrieved from http://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/neurobics.html

Wilkinson, R., & Picket, K. (2011). The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger. London: Bloomsbury Press.

Wilkinson, R., & Picket, K. (2019). The inner level: How more equal societies reduce stress, restore sanity and improve everyone’s well-being. New York: Penguin Press.

Williams, J. J. (2013). Applying cognitive science to online learning. Lytics Lab, Graduate School of Education and Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning, Stanford University.

Winn, M. T. (2018). Justice on both sides: Transforming education through restorative justice.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Yeager, D. S., & Dweck, C. S. (2012). Mindsets that promote resilience: When students believe that personal characteristics can be developed. Educational Psychologist, 47(4), 302–314.

 


articles

Association for Psychological Science. (2007, September 24). Racism’s cognitive toll: Subtle discrimination is more taxing on the brain. Science Daily. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070919093316.htm

Boucher, E. (2016, August 22). It’s time to ditch our deadlines. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.chronicle.com/article/It-s-Time-to-Ditch-Our/237530

Bump, N. (2016, February 12). Mattering: Why it matters for college students. Motivis Learning. Retrieved from http://motivislearning.com/2016/02/12/mattering-why-it-matters-for-college-students/

California Community Colleges Student Mental Health Program. (n.d.). Supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. Student Mental Health Program Training and Technical Assistance for California Community Colleges. Retrieved September 2016, from http://cccstudentmentalhealth.org/docs/SupportingLGBTQStudents.pdf

Carlson, J. (2015, Fall– 2016, Winter). Against being inclusive. Liberal Education, 58–63.

Carroll, G. (1998). Mundane extreme environmental stress and African American families: A case for recognizing different realities. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 29(2), 271–284.

Casselman, B. (2014, April 30). Race gap narrows in college enrollment, but not in graduation. Retrieved from http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/race-gap-narrows-in-college-enrollment- but-not-in-graduation/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2014). LGBT youth. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/youth.htm

Chollar, R. (2013, June 17). 10 physical and emotional health concerns of LGBTQ students. Retrieved from https://www.campuspride.org/resources/10-physical-and-emotional-health-concerns-of-lgbt-students/

Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., Apful, N., & Master, A. (2006). Reducing the racial achievement gap: A social-psychological intervention. Science, 313, 1307–1310.

Feldman, D. B., & Dreher, D. E. (2012). Can hope be changed in 90 minutes? Testing the efficacy of a single-session goal-pursuit intervention for college students. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13(4), 745–759.

Georgia State University. (2015). 2015 status report: Georgia State University Complete College Georgia. Atlanta, GA: Author. Retrieved from http://enrollment.gsu.edu/files/2015/08/Georgia-State-University-CCG-Report-2015.pdf

Glisczinski, D. J. (2011). Lighting up the mind: Transforming learning through the applied scholarship of cognitive neuroscience. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5(1), 1–13.

Gonzales, N., Moll, L., & Amanti, C. (1995). Introduction: Theorizing practices. In N. Gonzales, L. Moll, & C. Amanti (Eds.), Funds of knowledge: Theorizing practices in households, communities, and classrooms (pp. 1–24). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Grasgreen, A. (2012, July 6). Researchers apply hope theory to boost college student success. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/06/researchers- apply-hope-theory-boost-college-student-success

Human Rights Campaign. (2012). Growing up LGBT in America. Retrieved from http://hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east- 1.amazonaws.com//files/assets/resources/Growing-Up-LGBT-in-America_Report.pdf

Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370–396. Retrieved from http://www.researchhistory.org/2012/06/16/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs/

McIntosh, P. (1988). White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women’s studies. Wellesley College. Retrieved from http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/diversity/white-privilege-and-male-privilege.pdf

Morisano, D., Hirsh, J. B., Peterson, J. B., Pihl, R. O., & Shore, B. M. (2010). Setting, elaborating, and reflecting on personal goals improves academic performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2), 255–264.

Pearson, A. R., Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (2009). The nature of contemporary prejudice: Insights from aversive racism. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3(3), 314–338.

Snipes, J., Fancsali, C., & Stoker, G. (2012). Student academic mindset interventions: A review of the current landscape. San Franciso, CA: Stupski Foundation.

Snyder, C. R., Shorey, H. S., Cheavens, J., Pulvers, K. M., Adams, V. H., & Wiklund, C. (2002). Hope and academic success in college. Journal Educational Psychology, 94(4), 820–826.

Solórzano, D., Ceja, M., & Yosso, T. (2000). Critical race theory, racial microaggres- sions, and campus racial climate: The experiences of African American college students. Journal of Negro Education, 69(1–2), 60–73.

Spade, D. (2011). Some very basic tips for making higher education accessible to trans students and rethinking the way we talk about gendered bodies. Radical Teacher, 92, 57–62, 80.

Sugarman, S. (2010). Seeing past the fences: Finding funds of knowledge for ethical teaching. The New Educator, 6, 96–117.

 


videos

60 Minutes. (March 11, 2018). Treating childhood trauma. Oprah Whinfrey. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oprah-winfrey-treating-childhood-trauma/

California Newsreel. (2008). Unnatural causes . . . is inequality making us sick? [Documentary series]. www.unnaturalcauses.org

Redford, J., & Pritzker, K. Resilience: The biology or stress and the science of hope. Documentary at https://kpjrfilms.co/resilience/about-the-film/ (look at video under Bonus Content)


Web sites

Fithian, L. (n.d.). Anti-oppression resources and exercises. Organizing for Power, Organizing for Change. Retrieved June 28, 2016, from http://organizingforpower.org/anti-oppression-resources-exercises/