As you might imagine from reading my other blog posts, I have what some might consider to be a book collecting problem. The last time I moved, 200 of the boxes were filled with books. People visiting my home often ask me if I’ve read all the books I own. The honest answer is no, I haven’t – but I intend to! The books I am in the middle of reading as well as those I plan to start reading ‘soon’ lay in tantalizing stacks on my coffee tables in the living room, credenza in the office, and bedside tables in the bedroom, as well as in virtual stacks on my Kindle.
I know it is bad form to judge a book by its cover, but what about judging a reader by the stacks she plans to read or finish reading ‘soon’? Perhaps if I share with you a list of some of these books, it will inspire me to accomplish them sooner rather than later. I will start with the books on my bedside table. You will notice that all the books in this particular stack have something to do with a strand of critical race theory called critical whiteness studies. This is a new area of interest for me as a teacher educator, so I am sharpening my proverbial saw by reading widely.
References
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Bonilla-Silva, E. (2013). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America (4th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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DiAngelo, R. (2012). What does it mean to be white? Developing racial literacy. Counterpoints.
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Frankenberg. R. (1993). White women, race matters: The social construction of whiteness. University of Minnesota Press.
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McIntyre, A. (1997). Making meaning of whiteness: Exploring racial identity with white teachers. State University of New York Press.
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Tochluck, S. (2011). Witnessing whiteness: The need to talk about race and how to do it (2nd ed.). R& L Education.
Another disciplinary niche I am trying to learn more about this winter is critical linguistics and how scholarship in that area informs the teaching of culturally and linguistically diverse learners of all ages. So there are two more books on my bedside table related to this topic.
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Herrera, S. G., Perez, D.R., & Escamilla, K. (2015). Teaching reading to English Language Learners: Differentiated literacies (2nd Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
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Lippi-Green, R. (2012). English with an accent (2nd Ed.). New York: Routledge.