Reference Books 

Recommended books for Unit I

  • James Loewen,  Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995) and Lies Across America (1999)
  • Howard Zinn, The People's History of the United States (1980)
  • Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago the Worst Schools in American (1988)
  • Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities (1991) others: Amazing Grace, Death at an Early Age
  • John Hope, Franklin From Slavery to Freedom
  • Fawn Brodie Jefferson: An Intimate History 

  • Annette Gordon Reid Thomas Jefferson, and Sally Hemings: An American
    Controversy

  • For discussion of DNA evidence, see article in Nature Magazine, Fall 1998,
    by Eugene Foster and Joseph Ellis

Recommended Books for Unit II

  • Intelligence and Race/Ethnicity

    Stephen J. Gould: Mismeasure of Man 1981
    Audrey Smedly: Race in North America 1993
    Shirlee Taylor Haizlip: The Sweeter the Juice-A Family Memoir in Black and White (1994)

  • General History of the African American Experience
    John Hope Franklin: From Slavery to Freedom 

 

  • Education of African Americans in the 20th Century

    Sarah and A. Elizbeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth: Having Our Say- The Delaney Sisters'First 100 Years 
    Melba Pattillo Beals: Warriors Don't Cry 

 

  • Books on Teaching and Learning by John Dewey

    Child and Curriculum/School and Society 1900
    Experience and Education 1938