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Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years: Resources for Teaching about the Impact of the Arrival of Columbus in the Americas

10 best books like Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years: Resources for Teaching about the Impact of the Arrival of Columbus in the Americas (Bill Bigelow): Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928, Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America, Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Woodcuts of Women, Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out, Black Mesa Poems, Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz, Drink Cultura: Chicanismo

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
AuthorDavid Wallace Adams
ISBN0700608389
The last "Indian war" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories...
Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
AuthorFrancisco A. Rosales
ISBN1558852018
This is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title, which is now available on video following its national airing on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Aimed at a broad general audience as well as college and high school students, this milestone...
The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN1555915663
Of all the misconceptions and misunderstandings perpetuated about Native peoples, the role of women in traditional cultures is perhaps the most falsely portrayed. The image of the overworked 'squaw'...women as property to be bought, sold, or traded. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Native...
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States
AuthorLori Marie Carlson
ISBN0805076166

i think in spanish
i write in english

i want to go back to puerto rico,
but i wonder if my kink could live
in ponce, mayagüez and carolina

tengo las venas aculturadas
escribo en spanglish
abraham in español

--from "My Graduation Speech," by Tato...
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
AuthorElizabeth Martínez
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
Woodcuts of Women
AuthorDagoberto Gilb
ISBN0802138748
Dagoberto Gilb is an acknowledged master of the short story, the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and a PEN/Faulkner finalist for his debut collection, The Magic of Blood, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his fiction writing. His critically acclaimed collection Woodcuts of Women is...
Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
AuthorRalph Fletcher
ISBN0380797038
A practical guide to demystify the process of writing poetry, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding.

Poetry matters. At the most important moments, when everyone else is silent, poetry rises to speak.

This book is full of practical...
Black Mesa Poems
AuthorJimmy Santiago Baca
ISBN0811211029
Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987). "Baca's evocation of this landscape," as City Paper noted, "its aridity and fertility, is nothing...
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz
AuthorMona Ruiz
ISBN1558852026
the book i just finished reading was "Two Badges" and i really did like this book it tells most of my life on lines. Im not one to say how i feel or explain what im feeling but here Dona made it seem as if i was her. She had a crazy life that went by so fast and with me my story starts off the same . As a youngster i grew...
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo
AuthorJosé Antonio Burciaga
ISBN1877741078
This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures--the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all.

"In some ways a book Erma Bombeck might have written, that is, if she were from El Paso, dressed in Tony Lama boots, and full...
Zoot Suit and Other Plays
AuthorLuis Valdez
ISBN1558850481
Here are three of playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez's most important and recognized plays: Zoot Suit, Bandido! and I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges! The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. Luis...
Critical Race Theory, First Edition: An Introduction, First Edition
AuthorRichard Delgado
ISBN0814719309
For well over a decade, critical race theory--the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life--has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics...
Loverboys
AuthorAna Castillo
ISBN0393331679
“Seductive… full of infectious vigor… these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”―New York Times Book Review


From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience of love in all its myriad...
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
AuthorLuis Alberto Urrea
ISBN0816522707
Here's a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the 'hood, hoping for the American Dream.
. . . I'm not saying it's our story. I'm not saying it isn't. It might be yours. "How do you tell a story that cannot be told?" writes Luis Alberto Urrea in this potent memoir of a childhood...
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
AuthorRodolfo F. Acuña
Authored by one of the most influential and highly-regarded voices of Chicano history and ethnic studies, Occupied America is the most definitive introduction to Chicano history. This comprehensive overview of Chicano history is passionately written and extensively researched.With a concise...
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
AuthorWill Roscoe
ISBN0312224796
In many Native American tribal societies, it was not uncommon for some men to live as women and some women to live as men. In this land, the original America, men who wore women’s clothes and did women’s work became artists, ambassadors, and religious leaders, and women sometimes became warriors,...
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12
AuthorCris Tovani
ISBN1571103767
“Do I really have to teach reading?” This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is “yes.” If they want their students to learn complex new concepts in...
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
AuthorLinda Christensen
ISBN0942961250
"My students walk out the school door into a social emergency, " Linda Christensen writes. "They are in the center of it. I believe that writing is a basic skill that will help them both understand that emergency and work to change it." This practical, inspirational book offers essays, lesson plans,...
Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
AuthorPaulette Regan
In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system. In Unsettling...
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
AuthorJuan González
ISBN0140255397
The only reason it gets three instead of four or five stars is, while I like Gonzalez's intent to steer clear of composing a text written in what he terms the "safari approach" (meaning a text geared toward the Anglo -- i.e. non-Latino -- reader in which the writer guides the reader toward knowledge of the...
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