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A Change in Education Through Books and Movies

Books

Here are some books that are affordable  that teachers can use in their high school class settings to incorporate some diversity into their classes.

Literature

Here are some books that vary from African poetry to Native American novels that teachers can incorporate into their literature/english classes:

  •  Native Son by Richard Wright
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehsi Coates
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
  • Heavy by Kiese Laymon
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  • The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
  • This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

History

Here are some history books that teachers can use that will allow them to create unbiased learning for students:

  • Waiting 'Til Midnight the Midnight Hour by Peniel E. Joseph
  • The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
  •  1491 by Charles C. Mann
  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
  • Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams

Science

Racism in science was a sort of hard concept to tackle. I didn't even know the extremities of it till I looked into it. Here are some books that will allow you and your students to understand scientific racism:

  • Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
  • Body and Soul by Alondra Nelson
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Black and Blue by John Hoberman
  • Bad Blood by James H. Jones
  • Superior by Angela Sani
  • The Myth of Race by Robert Ward Sussman
  •  Is Science Racist? by Jonathan Marks

Math

Racism in math has nothing to do with numbers and all to do with the neglecting of other cultures mathematics. Here are some books that explore the endless boundaries of math from different cultures:

  • The Development of Arabic Mathematics by Roshdi Rashed
  • The Beginnings of Algebra by Roshdi Rashed
  •  A History of Chinese Mathematics by Jean-Claude Martzlof
  • The Development of Mathematics in China and Japan by Yoshio Mikami
  • Africa and Mathematics by Dirk Huylebrouck
  • Native American Mathematics Edited by Micheal P. Closs

Movies

Here is a list of powerful and informative movies that will allow your students to have knowledgeable insight about racism that you can showcase to your students:

- I Am Not Your Negro
- Selma
- 13th
- LA '92
- 12 Years a Slave
- When They See Us
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Malcom X
- Human Zoos: Americas Forgotten History of Scientific Racism