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  • Hyper Sexual, Hyper Masculine?

    Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Identities of Contemporary Black Men

    by Brittany C. Slatton, Kamesha Spates ...
    This book provides critical insights into the many, often overlooked, challenges and societal issues that face contemporary black men, focusing in particular on the ways in which governing societal expectations result in internal and external constraints on black male identity formation, sexuality and black ’masculine’ expression. Presenting new interview and auto-ethnographic data, and drawing on ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • What Don't Kill Us Makes Us Stronger

    African American Women and Suicide

    by Kamesha Spates ...
    Series series New Critical Viewpoints on Society
    A close look at black women’s physical, mental, and social circumstances reveals harmful social disparities. Yet, for decades, black women’s suicide rates have remained virtually nonexistent compared to the rest of the American population, baffling social scientists. In this book, black women speak for themselves about their life struggles and their notions of suicide. Within a framework that ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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  • Where the Millennials Will Take Us

    A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure

    by Barbara J. Risman ...
    Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it. ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education

    Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations (Second Edition)

    Edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro, Bic Ngo ...
    Series Book 468 - Counterpoints
    This book spotlights six themes or «lenses» for understanding and analyzing education and its relation to oppression and anti-oppressive transformation. It brings together multiple perspectives on anti-oppressive education from various contexts, including K-12 schools, teacher education programs, postsecondary institutions, and community-based organizations. The book provides an array of practical ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Keepin' It Real

    School Success Beyond Black and White

    by Prudence L. Carter ...
    Series series Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
    How can we help African American and Latino students perform better in the classroom and on exams? In Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter argues that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural styles and practices that non-white students bring to the classroom. Based on extensive interviews and surveys of students in New York, she ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys

    Edited by Eddie Moore, Ali Michael, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks ...
    Empower black boys to dream, believe, achieveSchools that routinely fail Black boys are not extraordinary. In fact, they are all-too ordinary. If we are to succeed in positively shifting outcomes for Black boys and young men, we must first change the way school is "done." That’s where the eight in ten teachers who are White women fit in . . . and this urgently needed resource is written ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success

    Edited by Lori D. Patton, Natasha N. Croom ...
    In this comprehensive volume, research-based chapters examine the experiences that have shaped college life for Black undergraduate women*,* and invite readers to grapple with the current myths and definitions that are shaping the discourses surrounding them. Chapter authors ask valuable questions that are critical for advancing the participation and success of Black women in higher education ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Experiences of Single African-American Women Professors

    With this Ph.D., I Thee Wed

    Edited by Eletra S. Gilchrist ...
    Experiences of Single African-American Women Professors: With this Ph.D., I Thee Wed, edited by Eletra S. Gilchrist, explores the unique lived experiences of single African-American women professors. Gilchrist's contributors are comprised of never-before-married and doctorate degree-holding African-American women professors. The authors and research participants speak candidly about their ... Read more

    $134.99 CAD

  • Getting Ready for Benjamin

    Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom

    by Tim Bedford, Deborah P Berrill, Roger Brindley, Kevin P. Colleary, Steve Fifield, Michael Gard, Karen Glasgow, Michelle Hoffner-Brodsky, Denise Hoffner-Brodsky, James R. King, Paula Kluth, Will Letts, Arthur Lipkin, Delores D. Liston, Wayne Martino, Cris Mayo, Michael Middleton, Jane A. Page, Karlenn Pendleton Jiménez, Eric Rofes, Ronni Sanlo, Mara Sapon-Shevin, Génet Simone, Diana Straut, Howard Lee Swain, Allison J. Young ...
    Series series Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series
    This book argues that issues of sexual diversity are inextricably interwoven into the basic concerns of pre-service teacher education. How do we make our students aware of assumptions regarding masculinity, femininity, and sexuality that arise from what is presented, represented, or omitted from curricula and classroom practice? What do we say about homophobia and heterosexism as we anticipate the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Raising Biracial Children

    by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Tracey A. Laszloffy ...
    As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception of racial identity must be developed. A wide divide between academics who research biracial identity, and the everyday world of parents and practitioners who raise and deal with mixed-race children exists. This book aims to fill this gap by ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Black Male(d)

    Peril and Promise in the Education of African American Males

    by Tyrone C. Howard ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In his new book, the author of the bestseller Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools examines the chronic under-performance of African American males in U.S. schools. Citing a plethora of disturbing academic outcomes for Black males, this book focuses on the historical, structural, educational, psychological, emotional, and cultural factors that influence the teaching and learning process for this ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Other People’s Children

    Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

    by Lisa Delpit ...
    A thirtieth anniversary edition of the landmark work on race, power, and education—repackaged for a new generationSince its original publication, education professor Lisa Delpit’s Other People’s Children has become a foundational text in the struggle for equity in education. Drawing on her experience as a teacher, researcher, and Black woman navigating predominantly white institutions, the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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