Books on My Shelf

Anti-Bias Education

• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele
• Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards
• Other’s People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit

Class/Status

• The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges–and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
• The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine, Ph.D

Gender

• Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children by Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D

Race

• 40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child by Barbara Mathias & Mary Ann French
• Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson
• The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege by Robert Jensen
• Everyday Acts Against Racism: Raising Children In a Multiracial World, Edited by Maureen T. Reddy
• The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism by Debra Van Ausdale & Joe R. Feagin
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
• Different and Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society by Dr. Darlene Powell Hopson and Dr. Derek S. Hopson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Others

• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson, Ph.D and Catherine O’Neill Grace with Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D
• The Parents We Mean To Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development by Richard Weissbourd
• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Dr. Norman Doidge