In 1968, a bipartisan commission was created and tasked with holding hearings, studying, and reporting out on the racial division that had caused riots in cities across America. Their charge was to identify what happened, why, and how to prevent its reoccurrence. That commission determined that while population migration was the change that took place, institutionalized white racism caused the uprisings. Extensive social systems change was required to eradicate the division. The 2018 volume investigates the myriad of structures that make up contemporary life in America and identifies how those structures continue to differ based on race and ethnicity. It is intentionally written to return the issues to the public forefront and to call citizens to action.
Harris, Fred and Curtis, Alan. 2018. Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
The Kerner Commission Report, published in 1967, provided leaders throughout the United States with a review of racial disparities in multiple civil organizations and recommended remedies to the wide-ranging unjust traditions. In this writing, Darling-Hammond identifies public education’s successes and failures in the ensuing half-century since that document was penned. Subsequently, she describes the actions required to bring the dream of educational equity to fruition.
Darling-Hammond, L. 2018. Kerner at 50: Educational Equity Still a Dream Deferred. Learning Policy Institute, April 2018. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/kerner-50-educational-equity-still-dream-deferred?utm_source=LPI+Master+List&utm_campaign=3c852c6680-LPIMC_Kerner_Jackson_Blog_20180426&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7e60dfa1d8-3c852c6680-73621275 (accessed April 27, 2018).
The book explores how race is often not explicitly talked about in schools yet has a profound effect on how schools are organized, how students and teachers interact and how implicit lessons of race are taught. The book is an important tool for practitioners who seek to become more reflective on how their everyday interactions in schools are embedded within the historical and racial fabric of America.
Lewis, A. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003
Lewis, A. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003
The resource highlights how racial segregation in schools is still a relevant and consequential issue in America. The resource provides practitioners with a critical lens as they think about the demographic trends in the districts they work in.
Orfield, G., and Lee, C. “Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation.” Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA., 2006.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of health, social, emotional etc. issues facing Latino males in America. It is useful for practitioners who seek to further understand prevalent issues affecting Latino males in America.
Noguera, P., Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus Eds. Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males: Invisible No More. New York: Routledge, 2011.
