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Last Updated: 15-Jun-2015

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This guide is for those interested in African American education, both research and practice.

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Education
Race and ethnicity studies

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Background information

The Palgrave handbook of race and ethnic inequalities in education / edited by Peter A.J. Stevens and A. Gary Dworkin.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212 .P35 2014
"provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality in 18 different national contexts"
Encyclopedia of African American education / edited by Kofi Lomotey.
Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC2771 .E63 2010 V.1
Handbook of critical race theory in education / edited by Marvin Lynn and Adrienne D. Dixson.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC196 .H364 2013
International handbook of urban education / editors, William T. Pink and George W. Noblit.
Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC5115 .I57 2007 PT.1
Annual status report, minorities in higher education.
[Washington, D.C.] : American Council on Education, Office of Minority Concerns,
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC3731 .A512 ED.24 2010
Annual status reports.
Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education / Editor, James A. Banks, University of Washington.
Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC1099 .E38 2012 V.1
"The major aim of this encyclopedia is to describe the most important concepts, theories, research, policies, case studies, and programs at the pre-school through the postsecondary levels and their implications for educational reform. Diversity is defined broadly in this encyclopedia and includes race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation (LGBT), religion, language, and exceptionality, which encompasses giftedness and disability." p. xlviii

New books

Students of color and the achievement gap : systematic challenges, systematic transformations / Richard R. Valencia.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC3731 .V346 2015
Rac(e)ing to class : confronting poverty and race in schools and classrooms / H. Richard Milner IV ; [foreword by Tyrone C. Howard].
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.2 .M55 2015
What's race got to do with it? : how current school reform policy maintains racial and economic inequality / edited by Bree Picower and Edwin Mayorga.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.2 .W44 2015
Beginning a career in academia : a guide for graduate students of color / edited by Dwayne A. Mack, Elwood Watson, and Michelle Madsen Camacho.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2781 .B354 2015
Because of our success : the changing racial and ethnic ancestry of Blacks on affirmative action / Kevin D. Brown.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC213.52 .B76 2014
Educating a diverse nation : lessons from minority-serving institutions / Clifton Conrad & Marybeth Gasman.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC3727 .C635 2015
Interrogating critical pedagogy : the voices of educators of color in the movement / edited by Pierre Wilbert Orelus and Rochelle Brock.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC196 .I68 2015
The myth of Black anti-intellectualism : a true psychology of African American students / Kevin O. Cokley.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2731 .C65 2015
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow : school desegregation and resegregation in Charlotte / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, Amy Hawn Nelson, editors.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.523 .C46 Y48 2015
Multicultural education for educational leaders : critical race theory and antiracist perspectives / Abul Pitre, Tawannah G. Allen, and Esrom Pitre.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2805 .P64 2015
Engaging the "race question" : accountability and equity in U.S. higher education / Alicia C. Dowd and Estela Mara Bensimon.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC213.2 .D68 2015
Practice-oriented.
Opportunities and challenges at historically black colleges and universities / edited by Marybeth Gasman and Felecia Commodore.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2781 .O67 2014
Black males and racism : improving the schooling and life chances of African Americans / Terence D. Fitzgerald.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2731 .F58 2015
Being bad : my baby brother and the school-to-prison pipeline / Crystal T. Laura ; foreword by William Ayers ; afterword by Erica R. Meiners.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2779 .L38 2014
African Americans and homeschooling : motivations, opportunities and challenges / Ama Mazama and Garvey Musumunu.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2717 .M39 2015
Hot fudge sundae in a white paper cup : a spirited Black woman in a white world / Gwendolyn Calvert Baker.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA2317 .B135 A3 2014
New visions of collective achievement : the cross-generational schooling experiences of African American males / Darrell Cleveland Hucks ; foreword by Suzanne C. Carothers.
Rotterdam [Netherlands] ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2731 .H83 2014
A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South / Audrey Thomas McCluskey.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA2311 .M39 2014
Schooling Jim Crow : the fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the roots of Black protest politics / Jay Winston Driskell Jr.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2803 .A85 D75 2014
Black men in higher education : a guide to ensuring student success / J. Luke Wood and Robert T. Palmer.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2781 .W66 2015
Critical perspectives on black education : spirituality, religion, and social justice / edited by Noelle Witherspoon Arnold (University of Missouri), Melanie Brooks (University of Idaho), Bruce Makoto Arnold (Louisiana State University).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2717 .C75 2014
Researching race in education : policy, practice, and qualitative research / edited by Adrienne D. Dixson (University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.2 .R53 2014
Understanding the Black flame and multigenerational education trauma : toward a theory of the dehumanization of Black students / June Cara Christian.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2717 .C46 2014
Supporting graduate students in the 21st century : implications for policy and practice / volume editors, Pamela Petrease Felder, Edward P. St. John.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » 371.96 .E236 V.27
Building on resilience : models and frameworks of Black male success across the P-20 pipeline / edited by Fred A. Bonner II ; foreword by Tim King ; afterword by Robert T. Palmer.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2731 .B85 2014
Practice-oriented.
Ordinary theologies : religio-spirituality and the leadership of black female principals / Noelle Witherspoon Arnold.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2831.93 .A76 2014
Prudence Crandall's legacy : the fight for equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education / Donald E. Williams Jr.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA2317 .C73 W55 2014
The Southern Manifesto : massive resistance and the fight to preserve segregation / John Kyle Day.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » KF4155 .D39 2014
Teacher education and Black communities : implications for access, equity, and achievement / edited by Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz (Teachers College, Columbia University), Chance W. Lewis (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Ivory Toldson (Howard University).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2782 .T43 2014
Men of color in higher education : new foundations for developing models for success / edited by Ronald A. Williams ; with Edmund T. Gordon ... [et al.] ; foreword by Freeman A. Hrabowski, III.
First Edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2781 .M46 2014

Journals

Diverse issues in higher education.
Fairfax, VA : Cox, Matthews & Associates, 2005-
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2801 .B57 V.30:NO.1-13 2013
Equity & excellence in education.
Westport, CT : Greenwood Pub. Group,
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » 370.5 .I567 V.47 2014
The Journal of blacks in higher education.
New York, NY : CH II Publishers, c1993-
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » LC2781 .J68 NO.62 2008/2009

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related databases

Ethnic newsWatch [electronic resource].
[Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date.

Websites

Institute for Urban and Minority Education

"For almost forty years, IUME has used advocacy, demonstration, evaluation, information dissemination, research and technical assistance to study and seek to improve the quality of life chances through education in the communities of urban and minority peoples. The Institute continues to focus on the implications of population diversity in the context of the demand for pluralistic competencies for the design and management of teaching and learning transactions in schools and other environments for education."