PREPARING FOR PLAYBACK THEATRE LEADERSHIP COURSE

Booklist:

(This list is primarily for US students. It is about race and culture in the US and dehumanization on a world-wide scale. We will be augmenting it for students from other regions as we can.) 

Chang, Iris (1997). The Rape of Nanking. New York: Basic Books.

Freire, P. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1970, 1993.

Gioseffi, D. On Prejudice: a global perspective. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.

Gonzalez, Juan (2000). Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York: Viking.

Gourevitch, Phillip (1998). We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. New York: Farrar, Strais & Giroux.

Helms, A Janet E. (1992). Race is Nice Thing to Have. Content Communications.

Higginbotham, A. Leon (1980). In the Matter of Color. New York: Oxford University Press.,

Kivel, Paul (rev. 2002). Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. New Society Publishers.

Krog, Antje (1998). Country of My Skull. New York: Times Books.

Mindell, Arnold (1995). Sitting in the Fire: Large group transformation using conflict and diversity. Lao Tse Press.

Said, E.W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vantage Books.

Sardar, Ziauddin and Merryl Wyn Davies (2002). Why Do People Hate America? (New York: The Disinformation Company, Ltd.

Stout, Linda (1997.) Bridging the class divide, and Other lessons for Grassroots Organizing. Beacon Press. 

Takaki, Ronald (1993). A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Boston: Little, Brown. 

Tatum, Beverly Daniel (2003). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. Basic Books.

Ueda, Reed (1994). Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press.

Zinn, Howard (rev. 2003). A People's History of the United States. Perennial Classics.