Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook is a resource manual for teachers who want to infuse the concepts of diversity and social justice into their secondary and college courses. Lecturers and workshop presenters will also appreciate this text for its practical uses. The authors present proven guidelines for teaching diversity using a framework that deconstructs national opinion and culture from both majority and minority perspectives. Emphasizing the development of a shared language among teachers and learners, the text provides a list of important definitions about difference and power. It discusses the role of the teacher in minimizing cultural dominance, prejudice, and discrimination in society. The text includes an extensive section on designing a diversity education course, and teachers will benefit from the suggested instructional activities, readings, assignments, and advice on creating a classroom atmosphere for these issues. More than just another book on film literacy and criticism, this manual stands out from the competition for its practical, user-friendly mini-lessons using film clips from mainstream Hollywood feature films to illustrate the 25 diversity definitions provided in the text, and develops a list of questions following each clip that can be used to encourage cross-cultural dialogue.

Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook (Counterpoints)

Literature & Fiction

Johnson, Brian C.

Blanchard, Skyra C.

Dramas & Plays

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

The first edition of Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook won the 2009 Phillip C. Chinn Book Award of the National Association for Multicultural Education. This revised edition is an updated resource guide for educators in secondary and university classrooms who desire to integrate mainstream and independent films into their instructional content about diversity and social justice. The book has transformed difficult dialogues in classrooms around the country by helping educators identify full-length films and shorter film clips to enhance, energize, and motivate student learning. Accessible and practical for both novice and advanced educators, the book provides a lexicon of twenty-five definitions that teachers and learners should understand about difference, awareness, and power. Assignments, classroom activities, and lecture notes highlight these definitions in ways that deeply impact students’ multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. Reel Diversity invites cross-cultural dialogue about films’ mixed messages and how they enforce and reinforce cultural values. Students will emerge with a greater understanding of the educational value of this entertainment medium. The book is perfect for courses in mass media, film studies, American studies, mass communication, and media literacy.

Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook – Revised Edition (Counterpoints)

Blanchard, Sykra C.

America's economy does not currently live up to our country's core values. 
We are a nation founded on the ideals of coming together across differences to forge a common future. Yet over the past fifty years, our economy has been pulling us apart at unprecedented rates. By allowing top income earners and the wealthiest Americans to hoard wealth like almost never before, we belie what makes our country great. This is a threat to our well-being, our democracy, and our values. 
Brian C. Johnson combines accessible scholarship on wealth and income inequality in America with deeply personal accounts of six Americans of diverse backgrounds who are each wrestling with what it means to survive and thrive in this new economic world. In so doing, he offers a solution that is as visionary as it is practical. Dubbed the Citizen Dividend, this revolutionary model assumes that economic growth is built off of the wealth we have created together as a country, and together we all reap its benefits. In Our Fair Share, Johnson lays the groundwork for implementing this solution, detailing what the Citizen Dividend is, offering examples of similar existing models, outlining the benefits of such systems, tackling some of the common concerns that arise, and offering a path toward making it a reality. 
Ultimately, Our Fair Share calls on each of us to claim what is uniquely American, building a common future that embraces and celebrates our differences. This is our revolutionary inheritance. May we all benefit from it.

Our Fair Share: How One Small Change Can Create a More Equitable American Economy

Business & Money

Economics

Broadleaf Books

There are many ways to make a difference in our communities, many causes to organize and volunteer for. But where do we start? And how do we avoid burning out? Whether you're just beginning the work of social justice, or you've been doing it for years but need a reminder of why we're in this fight and how to keep going, this book is for you. Drawing from his nearly twenty-five years of social justice work and LGBTQ+ advocacy, Brian Johnson offers us this set of urgent, essential, justice-seeking letters to his daughter in The Work Is the Work. Johnson explores what compels us to serve and how to respond to the many needs around us, offering insights from well-known figures in justice work such as Claudia Rankine, Greg Boyle, Gandhi, and more. What is personal is also universal--containing the essentials of justice work and advocacy, and revealing why we keep going. For all who care about environmental justice, LGBTQ+ advocacy, anti-racism efforts, and community support, The Work Is the Workcelebrates the struggles and victories of advocacy work and shares the spirit of justice for our children, the next generation of changemakers. Written for the millions who work for justice, march in the streets, volunteer in service positions for the public sector, and want to inspire the next generation of changemakers, this book reminds us of the essentials and inspires us to keep fighting the good fight.

The Work Is the Work: Letters to a Future Activist

Job Hunting & Careers

Send Judah First: The Erased Life of an Enslaved Soul

A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836. But, like the other 276 faceless names entered in that ledger, Judah lived. Brian C. Johnson’s important work of historical fiction goes beyond what is recorded to portray the depth, humanity, and vulnerability of a beautiful soul all but erased by history. For Judah, as Johnson notes, “did the ultimate—she survived. Not as a weakling, but resilient and determined.”

United States

Hidden Shelf Publishing House

A young girl's life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. 
The slave ledger at Virginia's Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836. But, like the other 276 faceless names entered in that ledger, Judah lived. Brian C. Johnson's important work of historical fiction goes beyond what is recorded to portray the depth, humanity, and vulnerability of a beautiful soul all but erased by history. 
For Judah, as Johnson notes, "did the ultimate--she survived. Not as a weakling, but resilient and determined."

Speaking from his own experiences with secret addictions, the author examines the behavioral patterns and attributes of those who struggle with secret sins of all types. He also exposes the excuses and lies often used to justify inappropriate activities.

Sintimacy: The Christian's Love Affair With Secret Sin

Religion & Spirituality

Revival Nation Publishing

Finding God in the Bathroom: Enter the Throne Room

In the vein of Everybody Poops, which remains one of the bestselling books in children's literature for its familiarity to people of all backgrounds, Finding God in the Bathroom dares to explain Christian living principles in a way that blends grossology and theology. In this text, the old adage, "you are what you eat," takes on a spiritual connotation as fecal matter is equated with sin which can be wiped away by careful use of the Word of God (toilet paper). The toilet, sink, and shower become tools to understanding faith at a deeper level for the teenager and young adult.Perhaps your jaw is hitting the floor in disbelief right now. You probably have never imagined spirituality discussed in this manner. Rest assured, Finding God in the Bathroom is not a disrespectful, sarcastic, or satirical text though it is quite humorous]. Dr. Brian C. Johnson has taken great care to respectfully handle the sacred in this avant garde treatment.

Teen & Young Adult

WordCrafts Press

Nahim Lightbourne finds himself as the only black student at an exclusive private school. His peers have a funny way of showing their friendliness with all their racial jokes and jibes. Nahim feels alone until his high school hires its first black teacher. He must learn how to bear up against the tide-until a class lesson goes awry.

Me, My Selfie, and I

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Powder River Publishing

A revolutionary tool for corporate and academic trainers, We've Scene It All Before, harnesses the power of mainstream Hollywood film to enhance educational sessions about diversity and social justice. This resource manual offers practical guidance on how to effectively use the concept of difference as a starting point towards true inclusion. Seasoned and novice trainers will appreciate the suggested strategies and best practices on facilitating diversity dialogues, which are coupled with a set of twenty-five definitions that introduce and raise awareness of the personal and systemic nature of difference, discrimination, and power. Workshops on human relations and workplace diversity must move beyond the superficial "celebration" of diversity to the dismantling of systems of privilege and oppression that create environments where members of the organization are disenfranchised and disempowered. Using clips from a variety of genres of mainstream film allows the trainer to make intercultural concepts visible and offers a way for us to challenge our own values and assumptions. Participants will enjoy the presentations more as they view some of their favorite films in a whole new way; using this familiar medium creates a common basis for entering the discussions all the while giving us the permission to talk about serious and often controversial subjects. We've Scene It All Before: Using Film Clips in Diversity Awareness Training is a learning tool which will be tremendously useful in reducing resistance and increasing thoughtful cross-cultural dialogue.

We've Scene It All Before: Using Film Clips in Diversity Awareness Training

Brill Academic Pub

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Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook (Counterpoints)

Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook – Revised Edition (Counterpoints)

Our Fair Share: How One Small Change Can Create a More Equitable American Economy

The Work Is the Work: Letters to a Future Activist

Send Judah First: The Erased Life of an Enslaved Soul

Send Judah First: The Erased Life of an Enslaved Soul

Sintimacy: The Christian's Love Affair With Secret Sin

Finding God in the Bathroom: Enter the Throne Room

Me, My Selfie, and I

We've Scene It All Before: Using Film Clips in Diversity Awareness Training