Websites and Other Resources

http://blog.leeandlow.com/2013/06/17/why-hasnt-the-number-of-multicultural-books-increased-in-eighteen-years/

This website is tasteful because it gives me a little bit of the history of the problems and issues of why multicultural books are not selling or even in demand.  It offers solutions to what needs to be done to get these book back on the shelves.


Brown, M. (2014). Not Part, Not Half, But Whole. School Library Journal, 60(5), 32.


 Butler-Sweet, C. (2011). ‘Race isn't what defines me’: exploring identity choices in transracial, biracial, and monoracial families. Social Identities, 17(6), 747-769. doi:10.1080/13504630.2011.606672


Morton, J. K., Siera, M., Grant, K. L., & Giese, B. (2008). Confronting Dispositions toward Diversity through Children's Literature. Southeastern Teacher Education Journal, 1(1), 67-76.

OBESO, D. (2014). HOW MULTICULTURAL IS YOUR MULTIVERSE?. Publishers Weekly, 261(40), 24-31.

Naidoo, Jamie Campbell, ed. (2011). Celebrating Cuentos: Promoting Latino Children’s Literature
and Literacy in Classrooms and Libraries. Libraries Unlimited.

Stephanie Weisenburger (2009). Using Readers’ Theater with Multicultural Literature. Education
Digest

Jani L. Barker (2010). Racial Identification and Audience in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and The
Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. Children’s Literature in Education

Exploring Diversity and Children’s and YA Books with Interracial Family Themes (retrieved from
http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/lit_resources/diversity/multiracial/multi_race_intro.html

KaaVonia Hinton & Theodorea Berry (2005). Literacy, Literature, and Diversity. Journal of
Adolescent & Adult Literacy

The First Amendment in Schools
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/103054/chapters/Part-II.-Core-Issues-for-All-Schools-to-Consider.aspx

Taylor, C., & Gutmann, A. (1994). Multiculturalism: examining the politics of recognition / Charles Taylor ... [et al.]; edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994.

Bery, S. (2014). Multiculturalism, teaching slavery, and White supremacy. Equity & Excellence In Education, 47(3), 334-352. doi:10.1080/10665684.2014.933072

Sung, Y. K. (2010). A post-colonial critique of the (MIS) representation of Korean-Americans in children's picture books. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A, 70, 2424.

Conkright, L., Flannagan, D., & Dykes, J. (2000). Effects of pronoun type and gender role consistency on children's recall and interpretation of stories. Sex Roles, 43(7/8), 481-497.

Prentice, D., & Carranza, E. (2002). What Women and Men Should Be, Shouldn’t Be, Are Allowed to Be, and Don’t Have to Be: The Contents of Prescriptive Gender Stereotypes. Psychology Of Women Quarterly, 26(4), 269-281.

Kerr, B. A., & Multon, K. D. (2015). The Development of Gender Identity, Gender Roles, and Gender Relations in Gifted Students. Journal Of Counseling & Development, 93(2), 183-191. doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.2015.00194.x

Klein, E., & Hollingshead, A. (2015). Collaboration Between Special and Physical Education: The Benefits of a Healthy Lifestyle for All Students. Teaching Exceptional Children, 47(3), 163. doi:10.1177/0040059914558945

Collier, R. (2012). Person-first language: Noble intent but to what effect?. CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'association Medicale Canadienne, 184(18), 1977-1978. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-4319

Collier R. Person-first language: what it means to be a "person". CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'association Medicale Canadienne [serial online]. December 11, 2012;184(18):E935-E936. Available from MEDLINE with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 14, 2015.

Check out some of these links to find out more disabilities and diversity

http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/ Disability is Natural with information from Kathie Snow

http://www.asha.org/ American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

http://ncdj.org/resources/organizations/ From Arizona State University’s National Center on Disability

and Journalism; a list of organizations

http://www.ncld.org/ National Center for Learning Disabilities

https://www.cec.sped.org/ Council for Exceptional Children

http://www.kidneeds.com/diagnostic_categories/physical_lnk.htm information dealing with physical
disabilities

http://aspitude.blogspot.com/2009/03/autism-first-language.html a blog about Autism First