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The following is a collection of book and audio/video material that may be checked out from the Curriculum Transformation Resource Collection.

The following is a selection of books and monographs from the Curriculum Transformation Resource Collection available for loan to faculty:

Association of American Colleges and Universities. Boundaries and Borderlands: The Search for Recognition and Community in America. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 1994.

Banks, J.A. (Ed.). Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Teachers College Press.

 

Multicultural Education... demonstrates the ways in which the current multicultural education movement is both connected to and a continuation of earlier movements, both scholarly and activist, designed to promote empowerment, knowledge transformation, liberation, and human freedom in U.S. society. This book serves as a text in courses on multicultural education and as a supplemental text in graduate and undergraduate courses on the history, sociology and foundations for education.

 

Basu, A. (Ed.). The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.

This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of womenís movements worldwide. This volume focuses on the postcolonial states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The book challenges the assumptions that feminism can transcend national differences and, conversely, that womenís movements are shaped and circumscribed by national levels of development.

Bauer, D. G. The Complete Grants Sourcebook for Higher Education. Phoenix, AZ: American Council on Education & Oryx Press, 1996.

An invaluable resource for faculty and administrators who are seeking funding for research or other projects in an increasingly competitive environment. The Sourcebook covers the three main sources of funding - foundation, corporate, and federal.

Bowker, A. Sisters in the Blood: The Education of Women in Native America. Newton, MA: WEEA Publishing,1993.

Garber, L. (Ed.). Tilting the Tower: Lesbians, Teaching, Queer Subjects. New York: Routledge, 1994.

This work explores the status of lesbians and lesbian studies in the high school and university classroom and in the academy. Bringing together a variety of academics, the volume documents the voices, personal experiences, teaching strategies and activist efforts to diversify the curriculum, the classroom, and the campus.

Ginorio, A. B. Warming the Climate for Women in Academic Science. Washington, DC: Assoc. American Colleges and Universities, 1995.

Goldberg, D.T. (Ed.). Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1994.

This book delineates the prevailing concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of multiculturalism.

Higginbotham, E. & Romero, M. (Eds.). Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997.

This collection of original research articles explores how race, ethnicity, and social class have shaped the work lives of women. This book explores women's wages, their abilities to control their work environments, and how they see themselves in the workplace. A great deal of importance is given to women of color, noncitizens, and working-class women. To order call (805) 499-9774 or visit the web site <http://www.sagepub.com>.

Hine, D. C. (Ed.). Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1993.

James, S. M. & Busia, A. P. A. (Eds.). Theorizing Black Feminisms: the Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women. New York: Routledge, 1993.

This book outlines some of the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In so doing, it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by scholars of Black feminism today.

Levine, L. W. The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

In response to the seemingly endless debate over multiculturalism, Levine shows that the new multicultural shift in American culture and education is not the result of a "plot by a cabal of politically correct radical professors," but a reflection of a dynamic of historical changes in American society.

Maher, F.A. and Tetreault, M.K.T. The Feminist Classroom. New York: Basic, 1994.

Schoem, D., Frankel, L., Zuniga, X., & Lewis, E.A. (Eds.). Multicultural Teaching in the University. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993.

This book explores the meaning and practice of multicultural teaching in three areas: content, process and diversity among students and faculty. Of particular interest is chapter 20 on dialogue groups, authored by Ximena Zúñiga (Univ. of Michigan) and Ratnesh Nagda (UW) on this effective pedagogical process that is now being used in the UW School of Social Work.

Takaki, R. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston, MA: Little, 1993.

Tapes are available for 24-hour loan from the Curriculum Transformation Project. The collection includes:

Color Adjustment, an 87-minute videotape produced by Vivian Kleiman and Marlon Riggs, traces over forty years of turbulent race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment. Revisiting popular television shows, viewers see how bitter racial conflict has been absorbed into the non-controversial formats of the prime time series.

Ethnic Notions: Black People in White Minds, a 58-minute video produced and directed by Marlon Riggs, is an award-winning documentary which takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history. Narration by Ester Rolle and commentary by respected scholars shed light on the origins and devastating consequences of this 150-year long parade of bigotry.

Remaking Canada (http://www. cbc.ca:80/national/pgminfo/canada/), a two and one-half hour videotape by CBCís top television news program, The National. The video documents a "citizen's assembly" that brings together 25 Canadians from across the country. Their task was to develop a new Canadian constitution in 72 hours. During the course of the video the diverse group of citizens debate new ideas for resolving Canada's problems and attempt to overcome differences to reach a consensus. The group discusses complex issues such as defining equality, sovereignty, bilingualism, multiculturalism, identity and alienation of French Canadian and indigenous peoples. The tape includes "Clash of Histories," a documentary that explores events in Canada's history that French and English Canadians have come to interpret and mythologize differently.

Race in the Classroom: The Multiplicity of Experience is a production of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Race Relations and Minority Affairs at Harvard University. In this video, five vignettes depict moments in college courses where the race or culture of participants, a race-related topic, or racial dynamics become a major factor in teaching and learning. Running time: 19 minutes.

Skin Deep, a 53-minute documentary film by Frances Reid, documents what happens when culturally diverse students from colleges across the United States start talking candidly with each other about the impact of race on their experience and outlook. Scenes reveal why racial tension persists and suggest ways of overcoming our country's complex legacy of racial injustice, apathy and alienation.

Talking about Race is a two-part video designed as a companion piece to the film "Skin Deep". The video breaks through the barriers that talking about race has placed between students and young people today and leads students to honest, open dialogue. In Part One, students from three major universities candidly share their perspectives on race and ethnicity. Part Two continues with a diverse group of 23 students from six American universities spending three days together supporting and challenging one another.

Coyote & Rock and Other Lushootseed Stories is a 60-minute audiotape of stories of the First Peoples of the Puget Sound areas told by Vi Hilbert, Upper Skagit Elder, and Director, Lushootseed Research.

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