11 Top history books like Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

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Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett…

If you liked the history plot in Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

By: Robin DiAngelo , None , Özlem Sensoy

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This practical handbook will introduce readers to social justice education, providing tools for dev… read more

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • teaching
  • education
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist

2. The January Children

By: Kwame Dawes , Safia Elhillo

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan unde… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Dawes's The January Children book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

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3. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

Similar categories in Michael Harriot's Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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5. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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6. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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7. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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8. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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10. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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11. Shut Up, This Is Serious

By: Carolina Ixta

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that t… read more

Similar categories in Carolina Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • audiobook
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12. Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School

By: Tiffany Jewell

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid , … read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Jewell's Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • history
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
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13. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

Similar categories in Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • teaching
  • education
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

14. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

Similar categories in Mike Hixenbaugh's They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
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15. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Literacy Is Liberation: Working Toward Justice Through Culturally Relevant Teaching

By: Kimberly N Parker

4.49

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Literacy is the foundation for all learning and must be accessible to all students. This fundamenta… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly N Parker's Literacy Is Liberation: Working Toward Justice Through Culturally Relevant Teaching book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction by Gholdy Muhammad

17. Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction

By: Gholdy Muhammad

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit―joy―to her ground… read more

Similar categories in Gholdy Muhammad's Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • teaching
  • education
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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18. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

By: Jarvis R. Givens

4.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose fa… read more

Similar categories in Jarvis R. Givens's Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
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19. Imagination: A Manifesto

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of strug… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Imagination: A Manifesto book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students by Ken Williams

20. Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students

By: Ken Williams

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you imagine being empowered with the knowledge work with super-charged confidence because you… read more

Similar categories in Ken Williams's Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual by Jennifer Berkshire

21. The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual

By: Jennifer Berkshire

4.16

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance—those of us who believe in public schoolsCult… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Berkshire's The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual book and Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education

15 best-selling audiobook books like Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

Transform Your Habits

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

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8 best-selling history books like Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

Transform Your Habits

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Third University Is Possible (Forerunners: Ideas First)

La Paperson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes

4.64

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