"Free Your Mind... "

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-homophobia : Books  ]

Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth--And Their Allies / Bass, Ellen; Kaufman, Kate. -- New York: HarperPerennial, c1996.

"Free Your Mind speaks to the basic aspects of the lives of gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth: self-discovery, friends and lovers, family, school, spirituality, and community. Alive with the voices of more than fifty young people, rich in accurate information and positive practical advice, Free Your Mind talks about how to come out, deal with problems, make healthy choices about relationships and sex, connect with other gay youth and supportive adults, and take pride and participate in the gay and lesbian community. Free Your Mind also presents detailed guidance for adults who want to make the world safer for lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth."

"Two Teenagers in Twenty..."

[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-homophobia : Books  ]

Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth

( read an exerpt )

"Twelve years after compiling One Teenager in Ten, the first book ever to allow dozens of teenagers to describe what it’s like to be gay or lesbian, Ann Heron asked for stories from a new generation. She found that their sense of isolation and despair runs every bit as deep as it did a decade earlier. Two Teenagers in Twenty combines these new voices with many essays from her first book. It will greatly ease the way for teenagers just now coming out and the adults who seek to support them."

Where I Come From

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Books  ]

Vijay Agnew'a newest book, Where I Come From 2003, Canada, 299pp.) is "a reflective memoir of an immigrant professor's life in a Canadian university. It covers the period from 1967, when Canada was opened up to third-world immigrants, to the present. The book illustrates the ways in which identity is socially constructed by tracing some of the labels that were applied to the author at various stages during her thirty years in Canada — “foreign student,” “Indian woman,” “immigrant,” “Indian feminist,” and “third-world woman.”

She shows how each of these names has affected her relationships with other people and contributed to making her the woman she is now perceived to be: a feminist, anti-racist, activist professor. This multilayered story reveals the complex ways in which race, class, and gender intersect in an immigrant woman's life, and engages readers in a conversation that narrows the distance between them, showing not only what is different, but what is shared."

(details from above site)

April Raintree

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Books  ]

Culleton, Beatrice (Métis), April Raintree. 1984.

"Perhaps because of the immediacy of the first-person narrative, the reader is inevitably drawn into the controversy regarding attitudinal ethics and the question of foster homes and adoption of native children. April Raintree is an important addition to the supplementary reading list for native studies, Canadian family, and people in society courses, as well as thematic units in Canadian literature." (review from above site)

Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education

[ Categories: Outside Canada : Anti-racism : Books  ]

Leslie G. Roman and Linda Eyre, eds. Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education. New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 288.

"This timely collection contributes richly detailed and perceptive analyses of how educational policies and practices have come to be constituted so that questions of effectiveness and efficiency now prevail over “other” concerns, rendering many of the authors and the students to whom they feel accountable are marked as marginal and different. At the same time, many papers offer exemplary illustrations of a range of conceptual strategies and methodologies, useful both for their content and for how their approaches might be modified and applied elsewhere. Most of all, Dangerous Territories raises important and troubling questions for anyone who wishes to practice and promote critical education in contemporary schools and universities."
(from Historical Studies in Education review)

Diversity Learning

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : British Columbia : Canada : Vancouver : Anti-homophobia : Anti-racism : Books : Film/Video : Learning Resource Guides : Websites  ]

Designed for and by teachers, this website has links to hundreds of resources, lesson plans and learning activities on eliminating racism and promoting diversity that have been catalogued by subject/curricula and grade level. These lessons and activities cover a variety of topics, including multiculturalism, human rights, gender equity, global awareness and many other related issues.

Green Grass, Running Water

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Books : Learning Resource Guides  ]

King, Thomas (Cherokee), Green Grass, Running Water. 1993 (Blackfoot).

Discussion package for teachers about the book available online (in word .doc format)

"Green Grass, Running Water is set on a Blackfoot reserve in Alberta, Canada. The title refers to a phrase found in old treaties in which the U.S. government promised the Indians right to their land "as long as the grass is green and the water runs." (summary from above website)

Oyate.org - list of books for high school

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Canada : Outside Canada : Books : Websites  ]

For a listing of books for 'high-school up' and 'Books to Avoid'.

Pacific Educational Press - anti-racism and multicultural book list for teachers

[ Categories: British Columbia : Canada : Anti-racism : Books  ]

The Pacific Educational Press has a good list of books in their collection that can be ordered online.

Note Many Threads: Weaving a Country (Edited by Wilma Maki)
"This book is a collection of authentic writing for students in grades 5-7 about the wide range of people's experiences as immigrants to Canada. A carefully chosen selection of excerpts and short pieces from a variety of genres-poetry, novels, journals, newspapers-is included. They are arranged thematically so that readers can explore the reasons people have for leaving their original homes, their journeys to a new land, the strange, often exciting, and sometimes unpleasant experiences they have adjusting to a new social milieu, and the impact they have on this milieu. Accounts from both past and present add a historical dimension to the book. The original writing and documents are accompanied by short factual accounts to provide context for readers."

Parentbooks

[ Categories: Canada : Anti-racism : Books  ]

Toronto-based Parentbooks has an excellent selection of anti-racist & multicultural education books for educators and parents.

Reservation Blues

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Outside Canada : Books  ]

Reservation Blues by Alexie, Sherman (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene). 1995.

"In the 111-year life of the Spokane Indian reservation, not one person has arrived by accident-until the day the black stranger appears with nothing more than the suit he wears and the guitar slung over his back. The man happens to be the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. And when he passes his enchanted instrument to young Thomas-Builds-the-Fire-storyteller, misfit, and musician-a magical odyssey begins. From reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, Thomas and his Coyote Springs bandmates careen through ancestral nightmares and rock-and-roll dreams, sounding chords of celebration and survival as timeless as their tribe." (summary from website)

kstrom.net : Native American Books

[ Categories: Aboriginal Issues : Outside Canada : Books : Websites  ]

NATIVE AMERICAN BOOKS: Reviews of Books by, about Native Americans.

Also, List of children's books that Teachers must have.

The people these reviews are intended for are currently seen primarily as educators and librarians in K -12 schools, and for college Native Studies. But of course reviews are useful to students, too, as a guide to research.