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Reading Lists

Being Bilingual
Cisneros, Sandra. “No Speak English”. The House on Mango Street. Vintage Books: New York. 1984
Firmat, Gustavo Perez. “Dedication”. Latino Caribbean Literature. Ed. Virginia Seeley. Golbe Fearon: New Jersey. 1994.
Morales, Aurora Levins. “Child of the Americas”. Latino Caribbean Literature. Ed. Virginia Seeley. Golbe Fearon: New Jersey. 1994.
Siegal, Nina. “Language Barrier”. The San Francisco Bay Guardian. January 21-27, Vol. 32, No. 16. 1998. p.17.
Wickstrom, Beverlee Ed. “Repairs and Habitability”. California Tenants: Your Rights and Responsibilities. Legal Office of the Department of Consumer Affairs. 1992.

Language & Power
Thomas, Tina. “The Untold Story.” Rethinking Colombus: The Next 500 Years. Bigelow, Bill and Peterson, Bob. Rethinking Scholls, Ltd. 1998.
Weil, Lisa. “I, Christopher Columbus.” Rethinking Colombus: The Next 500 Years. Bigelow, Bill and Peterson, Bob. Rethinking Scholls, Ltd. 1998.

Power & Equality in Society
Collins, A., Seely Brown, J., and Newman, S. “Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching the Crafts of Reading, Writing and Mathematics” Knowing, Learning and Instruction: Essays in Honor of Robert Glaser. Ed. Lauren Resnick. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Enbaum Associates, 1989.
Freire, Paulo. The Politics of Education. Bergin and Garvey, NY, 1985.
Lacayo, R. And Russel, G. Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism. Time Inc. Magazine Company. 1995.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1946,
Shor, Ira. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992.
Shor, Ira (Ed). Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching. Heinemann, NH.1987.
Wink, Joan. Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World. Longman Publishing, NY, 1997.