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