Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program
342 Snell Hall, Corvallis, Or 97331
Phone: 541-737-2760 Fax: 541-737-8232
DPD.Program@orst.edu
Recommended Reading List
Curriculum Transformation
hooks, bell. “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope.”
Rosenfelt, Deborah. “Doing Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing Curricular Change.” From
Multicultural Course Transformation in Higher Education: A Broader Truth.
The Vocabulary of Difference, Power, and Discrimination
Frye, Marilyn. “Oppression.” From The Politics of Reality.
Lorde, Audre. “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference.” From Sister/Outsider.
Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.” From
Sister/Outsider.
Ore, Tracy. “Constructing Differences.” From The Social Construction of Difference and Equality.
Moore, Robert B. “Racism in The English Language.” From The Social Construction of Difference
and Equality.
Racism, Race & Ethnicity
Yamato, Gloria. “Something About the Subject Makes it Hard to Name.” From Race, Class, and
Gender: an Anthology.
Ortiz, Anna & Rhodes, Robert A. “Deconstructing Whiteness as Part of a Multicultural Educational
Framework: From Theory to Practice.” From, Journal of College Student Development, v41:1, 2000.
Waters, Mary C. “Optional Ethnicities? For Whites Only?” From Race, Class and Gender: an
Anthology.
Snipp, Matthew. “The First Americans: American Indians.” From Race, Class and Gender: an
Anthology.
Sexism and Heterosexism
Morgan, Kathryn Pauly. “Describing the Emperor’s New Clothes: Three Myths of Educational (In-) Equity.”
From The Gender Question in Education.
Pharr, Suzanne. “Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism.” From The Social Construction of Difference
and Inequality
Fausto-Sterling, Anne, “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough,” From The
Social Construction of Difference Inequality.
Katz, Jonathan Ned. “The Invention of Heterosexuality.” From The Social Construction of
Difference and Inequality.
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Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” From Feminism and
Sexuality.
Stoltenberg, John, “How Men Have (A) Sex,” From The Social Construction of Difference and
Inequality.
Classism
Langston, Donna, “Tired of Playing Monopoly?” From Race Class and Gender: An Anthology.
Mantsios, Gregory, “Media Magic,” From The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality.
Ableism
Wendell, Susan, “The Social Construction of Disability,” From The Rejected Body.
Linton, Simi and Mello, Susan and O’Neill, John, “Disability Studies: Expanding the Parameters of
Diversity,” From Radical Teacher, number 47.
DPD in the Classroom
Banks, Cherry A. McGee and Banks, James A, “Equity Pedagogy: An Essential Component of Multicultural
Education,” From Theory into Practice, vol. 34, no. 3.
Kimmel, Michael S., “The Gendered Classroom,” From The Gendered Society.
Koff, Aleim, et.al., “Questions and Responses on Multicultural Teaching and Conflict in the Classroom,” From
Multicultural Teaching in the University.
Rakow, Lana F, “Gender and Race in the Classroom: Teaching Way Out of Line,” From Feminist Teacher, vol.
6, no. 1.
Rhoades, Georgia, “Dealing with Racism in the Classroom,” From Feminist Teacher, vol. 6, no. 1.
Rich, Adrienne, “Taking Women Students Seriously,” From On Lies, Secrets and Silence.
Ropers-Huilman, Becky, “Social Justice in the Classroom,” From College Teaching, vol. 47, no. 3.
Thompson, Becky and Disch, Estelle, “Feminist, Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppression Teaching: Two White Women’s
Experience,” From Radical Teacher, no. 41.
Southern Poverty Law Center Website: www. Splcenter.org You can also link to the Teaching
Tolerance website from this location.
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