Primary References

Dweck, Carol.

--Self-theories: Their role in Motivation, Personality, and Development. Philadelphia: Psychology Press. 1999.

.--Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.New York: Random House. 2006.

Gay, Geneva. Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice. Teachers College Press. New York: 2010.

Hollins, Etta R.

--Culture in School Learning: Revealing the Deep Meaning. Mahwah, New Jersey: 1996.

--Learning to Teach in Urban Schools: The Transition from Preparation to Practice.Routledge. 2012.

Kimball, Solon T. “Community and Hominid Emergence.” Education and Culture Process Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, pp. 89-90.

Ladson-Billings, Gloria.

--“But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy” TheoryInto Practice Summer 1995: 159-165.

--“Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 2.0.a.k.a the Remix.” Harvard Educational Review.Spring 2014.

Steele, Claude.

-- “Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students.” The Atlantic August 1999.

-- Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us. New York: W.W.Norton & Co. 2010

Truscello, D.& L. Coleman, & P. Stone.(2013) “Social Capital, Stereotype Threat and the Myth of Effort: A Narrative of Two Culturally Responsive Education Initiatives.” The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Studies.Vol. 7. 2013.

Suggested Further Readings:

Bain, Kenneth. What the Best College Teachers Do. Harvard University Press. Cambridge: 2004.

Brookfield, Stephen. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. Josey-Bass, Inc. San Francisco: 1995.

Chandler, Michael Alison. “Black Parents Seek to Raise Ambitions: Loudoun Group Works to Keep Sons Interested in Academics and Achievement.” The Washington Post 20 February 2007.

Chavous, Tabbye M. “Racial stereotypes and gender in context: African Americans at predominantly Black and predominantly White colleges.” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research July 2004.

Delpit, Lisa. “Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction: What Should Teachers Do?” Rethinking Schools Online, Vol. 12, No. 1. URL: (Fall 1997).

The Education Alliance, “Principles for Culturally Responsive Teaching,”

Freire, Paolo.

--Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

--Education for Critical Consciousness.

Gillen, Jay. Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty. AK Press: Oakland. 2014. Forward by Bob Moses.

Gorski, Paul C. “A Narrative on Whiteness and Multicultural Education.”Research Room, 2000 URL:

Gladwell, Malcolm.

--Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. Back Bay Books. New York: 2005.

--Outliers: The Story of Success. Little Brown and Company. New York: 2008.

Heyman, Gail D. “Children's beliefs about gender differences in the academic and social domains.” Sex Roles: A Journal of ResearchFebruary 2004.

Howard, Tyrone C. “Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Ingredients for Critical Teacher Reflection.” Theory Into Practice Summer 2003: 195-202.

Keaton Jackson, Karen; Bullock, Travis; Holloway, Tremain. “The Pact: Using the Autobiography to Engage Students of Color in Critical Thinking, Self-Reflection, and Social Change.” The African American Male Conference, 2007.

Moses, R. P. “Pedagogy: The Experience of Teachers and Students.” Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project.

Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon and Shuster. New York: 2000.

Sedlack, William E. “Black Students on White Campuses: 20 Years of Research.” Journal of College Student Development.

Truscello, David K. It is not What You Know But Whom You Know: Expanding Student Social Capital Networks of Knowledge through Critical Pedagogy. Saarbrucken: VDM VerlagDr Müller.

Vygotsky, Lev. Mind in Society. 1975.

Wise, Tim. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2008.

Selected Videos

  • Hip Hop Hip Hope: Reinventing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
  • Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
  • The Journey of Man
  • The Pact
  • Race: The Power of an Illusion
  • Skin Deep
  • A Girl Like Me