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Savage Inequalities:  Children in American Schools, Jonathan Kozol, HarperCollins, 1991.

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The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People who Don’t Want to Know. Tema Okun. Information Age Publishing, 2010.

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