Research Guides: Education and Social Change in the Black Diaspora: Getting Started

Social Change and Changers

A Grassroots Leadership & Arts for Social Change Primer: For Educators, Organizers, Activists & Rabble-Rousers: Susan J. Erenrich and Debra DeRuyver, editors. International Leadership Association, 2022.; "More than 30 activist-artist leaders discuss their work inspiring and creating the positive changes needed to meet the daunting problems facing people and planet. Chapters are divided into six broad categories: community engaged theatre; exhibitions of art, politics, and resistance; troubadours of conscience; cultural activists in the fine and performing arts; participatory democracy and the role of the arts in social movements; and people power and community building." Rutgers-restricted Access

Top 101 Reformers, Revolutionaries, Activists, and Change Agents: Nicholas Faulkner. Britannica Educational Publishing, 2017. Rutgers-restricted Access

American Reformers: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary: 2nd edition. H.W. Wlson Company, 2017. Rutgers-restricted Access

Voices of Latin America: Tom Gatehouse, editor. Practical Action Publishing, 2019.; "The book captures the voices indigenous activists, fighting oil drilling in their homelands; mothers from favelas seeking justice for their children killed by police; opponents of large-scale mining projects; independent journalists working, at great personal risk, to expose corruption and human rights violations; women and LGBT people confronting violence and discrimination; and students demanding their right to a free, universal and high-quality education system." Rutgers-restricted Access

World Directory of Environmental Organizations: Thaddeus C. Trzyna and Julie Didion. 6th edition. Routledge, 2001. Rutgers-restricted Access

Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century: Joyce Elaine King. Mahwah, N.J., L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005. Rutgers-restricted Access

Culture in School Learning: Revealing the Deep Meaning: Etta R. Hollins. Mahwah, N.J., L. Erlbaum, 1996. Available?

Education in the Black Diaspora: Perspectives, Challenges, and Prospects: Kassie Freeman and Ethan Johnson. London, Routledge, 2012. Rutgers-restricted Access

Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, and Schooling.: John U. Ogbu. New York, Routledge, 2008. Available?

We Are An African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination: Russell John Rickford. New York, Oxford University Press, 2016.