Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success
By: Christopher Emdin
4.46
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new educational model that encourages educators to provide spaces for students to d…
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1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- nonfiction
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- social justice
- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
3. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
By: None
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers … read more
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
4. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
By: Zaretta Lynn Hammond
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement… read more
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
5. 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
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
6. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
7. Hotel Laguna
By: Nicola Harrison
3.80
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
In 1942, Hazel Francis left Wichita, Kansas for California, determined to do her part for the war e… read more
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- audiobook
8. Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
By: Jo Boaler
4.11
Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition
“Boaler is one of those rare and remarkable educators who not only know the secret of great teachin… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
- audiobook
9. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
10. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds
4.48
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning for ages 12 and up. A time… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"Science says the races are biologically equal so if they're not in society, the only reason why can be racism."-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"...leads back to the question of whether you, reader, want to be a segregationist (a hater), an assimilationist (a coward), or an antiracist (someone who truly loves)."-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"The first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past. By acknowledging America's racist past, we can acknowledge America's racist present. In acknowledging America'…"-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
"Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: I’m sure you’ve heard of this one. If you live in the South and go to a diverse school, this is why. This was the case that said racial segregation in public school…"-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
11. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
By: Lauren Fleshman
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
12. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
By: Bettina L. Love
4.54
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
13. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
By: Resmaa Menakem
4.40
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
14. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
By: Regina Jackson
4.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
15. The Black Kids
By: Christina Hammonds Reed
4.03
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re… read more
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- race
- social justice
- audiobook
"Nobody calls boys sluts."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"It's not just about Rodney. It's about all of us."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"They don't fucking see us even when they're looking right at us."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"Sometimes when you want to disappear, it's easiest to hide in music."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
16. 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
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
17. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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- audiobook
18. Permanent Astonishment
By: Tomson Highway
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation
By: Shane Safir
4.27
Format: None pages, ebook
Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we erad… read more
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
20. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
By: Alexandra Robbins
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more
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- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
21. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
By: Gholdy Muhammad
4.45
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is … read more
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
"As long as oppression is present in the world, young people need pedagogy that nurtures criticality."-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
"Perhaps the people who need criticality the most become those who share identities with the greatest oppressors of the world."-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
"We live in a period where there's no time for "urgent-free pedagogy." Our instructional pursuits must be honest, bold, raw, unapologetic, and responsive to the social times."-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
"The need to agitate for criticality historically spoke to the social unrest at the time, and I argue that the need to agitate is still necessary and pressing in classrooms today."-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
22. Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community
By: Liz Kleinrock
4.52
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Most educators want to cultivate an antibias and antiracist classroom and school community, but the… read more
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
23. Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
By: Alfie Kohn
4.10
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling… read more
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- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
24. Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice
By: Elena Aguilar
4.48
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Your Guide to Creating Equitable Schools If we hope to interrupt educational inequities and create … read more
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- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
"Why can't there be more white people coaching each other on their racism?"-Elena Aguilar, Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice
"Remember: It's not your fault that things are the way they are, but it is your responsibility to do something about them."-Elena Aguilar, Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice
"Resources are limited in many schools--however, if we prioritize dismantling systemic oppression, if we prioritize the needs of our most marginalized students, we can find the time, support, money, a…"-Elena Aguilar, Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice
"You can strive to make every conversation one that dismantles white supremacy and systems of oppression. Every conversation can contribute to building a more just and equitable world, a world in whic…"-Elena Aguilar, Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice
25. 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
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- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
26. 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
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- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
27. Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success
By: Christopher Emdin
4.46
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new educational model that encourages educators to provide spaces for students to d… read more
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- race
- teaching
- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
- audiobook
28. In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School
By: Jal Mehta
4.33
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
“The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read.”―Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
29. Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
By: M.K. Asante
4.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
As urgent, resonant, and essential as The Fire Next Time and Between the World and Me , a poetic, r… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
By: D. Watkins
4.34
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents a complex story about his coming-of… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Don't Suspend Me!: An Alternative Discipline Toolkit
By: Jessica Hannigan
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Shift from traditional to alternative discipline that really works With ever-changing discipline la… read more
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- education
