Starred entries were particularly useful and may be so for other educators.

AI and Critical AI

• Bates, Laura. (2025). The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny. Sourcebooks. Kindle Edition.
• Broussard, Meredith. (2023) More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. MIT Press. Kindle Edition. 
• Boloumwini, Joy. (2023). Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines, Random House.Noble, Safiya Umoja. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press. Kindle Edition.

Critical Pedagogy

• Aronowitz, S., & Giroux, H. A. (1986/2003). Education under siege: The conservative, liberal and radical debate over schooling. Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
• Breaking the cycle of curriculum violence. (2021, January 20). Williams Higher Ed.
• Freire, P. (1974/2005) Education for critical consciousness. Bloomsbury Academic. 
• George, A. (2001). Critical pedagogy: Dreaming of democracy. In Gary Tate, Amy Rupiper, & Kurt Schick (Eds.). In A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. Oxford University Press.
• Giroux, H. A. (1981). Schooling and the myth of objectivity: Stalking the politics of the hidden curriculum. McGill Journal of Education, 16(3)
• Giroux, H. A. (1988). Teachers as intellectuals: Toward a critical pedagogy of learning. Bergin & Garvey.
• Giroux, H. A. (2020). On critical pedagogy (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury Academic.
• Giroux, H. A. (2022) Pedagogy of resistance: Against manufactured ignorance. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Givens, J. R. (2021). Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the art of Black teaching. Harvard University Press.
• Ighodaro, E. (2007). Curriculum violence: The impact of standardized testing on the academic achievement of African American students [Doctoral dissertation, Nova Southeastern University].
• Jones, S. P. (2020) Ending curriculum violence. Learning for Justice, 64.
• Kimble, M., Flack, W., Koide, J., Bennion, K., Brenneman, M., & Meyersburg, C. (2021). Student reactions to traumatic material in literature: Implications for trigger warnings. PloS one, 16(3), e0247579.
• Martinez, A. (2020). Counterstory: The rhetoric and writing of critical race theory. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
• May, S. (2003) Critical multiculturalism. Counterpoints, 168, 199–212. 
• McComiskey, B. (2017). Post-truth rhetoric and composition (current arguments in composition). Utah State University Press.
• Pace, J. L. (2015). The charged classroom: Predicaments and possibilities for democratic teaching. Routledge.
• Pace, J. L. (2021). Hard questions: Learning to teach controversial issues. Rowman and Littlefield.
• Shor, I., & Freire, P. (1987). A pedagogy for liberation. Bergin & Garvey.
• Teaching about racism is essential for education [Editorial]. (2022, February 1). Scientific American.
• Trembath, S. (2020). Teaching Black lives in college when Black lives didn’t matter that much K-12, Radical Teacher, 116, 18–25.

Critical Reading and Rhetoric

• Adams, W. R. (2010). Developing reading versatility (11th ed.). Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. 
• Altick, R. D. (1951). Preface to critical reading (rev. ed.). Holt.
• Bargiela, F., Boz, C., Gokzadze L., Hamza, A., Mills, S., & Rukhadze, N. (2002) Ethnocentrism, politeness and naming strategies. Working Papers on the Web.
• Booth, W. C. (2004). The rhetoric of rhetoric: The quest for effective communication. Blackwell.
• Carillo, E. C. (2015). Securing a place for reading in composition: The importance of teaching for transfer. Utah State University Press.
• Carillo, E. C. (2018). Teaching readers in post-truth America. Utah State University Press.
• Freire, P., & Macedo D. (1987). Literacy: reading the word and the world. Routledge. 
• GLAAD and Them. (2019, April 19) Why queer activists should direct their message to the “movable middle.” Them.
• Olson, G. A. (2002). Rhetoric and composition as intellectual work, Southern Illinois University Press.
• Paul, R., & Elder L. (2008) How to detect media bias and propaganda in national and world news. The Foundation for Critical Thinking.
• Shor, I. (1987). Critical teaching and everyday life. University of Chicago Press.
• Slevin, J. F. (2001). Introducing English: Essays in the intellectual work of composition. University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Trembath, S. (2023b). Decoloniz[Er]Ing The Mind: A Critical Rhetoric and Composition Framework and De-Linking Curriculum For Professors of First-Year Students [Dissertation], American University, Washington DC.

Critical Thinking

• Elder, L., & Paul R. (1996). Critical thinking development: A stage theory with implications for instruction. The Foundation for Critical Thinking.
• hooks, b. (2010). Teaching critical thinking: Practical wisdom. Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
• Muhammad, G. (2020) Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies).
• Paul, R., & Elder L. (2020) The miniature guide to critical thinking concepts and tools. The Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Decoloniality

• Appleton, N. S. (2019, February 4). Do not ‘decolonize’ … if you are not decolonizing: Progressive language and planning beyond a hollow academic rebranding. Critical Ethnic Studies.
• Escobar, Arturo. (2018). Designs for the pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds. Duke University Press Books.
• Escobar, Arturo. (2015) Patterns of commoning: Commons in the pluriverse.
• Foucault, M. (1980). Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings, 1972–1977 (Colin Gordon, ed.). Pantheon Books.
• Hundle, A. K. (2019) Decolonizing diversity: The transnational politics of minority racial difference. Public Culture, 31(2), 289–322.
• Kothari, A., Salleh A., Escobar A., Demaria F., & Acosta A. Pluriverse: A post–development dictionary. Authors Up Front/Tulika Books.
• Mignolo, W. (2007). Delinking: The rhetoric of modernity, the logic of coloniality and the grammar of de-coloniality. Cultural Studies, 21(2-3).
• Mignolo, W. D. (2011). The darker side of western modernity: Global futures, decolonial options. Duke University Press.
• Mignolo, W. D., & Walsh C. E. (2018). On decoloniality: Concepts, analytics, praxis. Duke University Press.
• Quijano, A. (2007). Coloniality and modernity/rationality. Cultural Studies, 21(2-3), 168–178,
• Reiter, B. (Ed.). (2018). Constructing the Pluriverse: The Geopolitics of Knowledge. Duke University Press.
• Smith, L. T., Tuck E., & Yang W. K. (Eds). (2019). Indigenous and decolonizing studies in education. Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
• wa Thiong’o, N. (1986/1992). Decolonising the mind: The politics of language in African literature. James Currey/Heinemann.

Design and Educational Design 

• Brown, T. (2019). Change by design: How design thinking transforms organizations and inspires innovation (rev. ed.). HarperCollins e-books.
• Constanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design justice: Community-led practices to build the worlds we need. The MIT Press.
• Eisner, E. (1985). The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of school programs (3rd ed.). MacMillan.
• Patel, L. (2016). Decolonizing educational research: From ownership to answerability. Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
• Smith, L. T. (2012). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. Zed Books.
• Taylor, R. M. (2017) Indoctrination and social context: A system-based approach to identifying the threat of indoctrination and the responsibilities of educators. Journal of Philosophical Education, 51(1), 38–59.

Education and Pedagogy 

• Benson, T. A., & Fiarman, S. E. (2020). Unconscious bias in schools: A developmental approach to exploring race and racism. Harvard Education Press.
• Freire, P. (1970/1997). Pedagogy of the oppressed (new revised 20th anniversary ed.), Bloomsbury Academic.
• Freire, P. (2014). Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Bloomsbury Revelations). Bloomsbury Academic.
• hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge.

History, Social Studies, Critical Race, and Multicultural Education

• Apple, M. W. & Christian-Smith, L. K. (1991). The politics of the textbook. Routledge.
• Barton, K. C., & Levstik, L.S. (2004). Teaching history for the common good. Routledge. Battiste, M. (2017). Decolonizing education: Nourishing the learning spirit. University of British Columbia Press.
• Carleton, S. (2011). Colonizing Minds: Public Education, the “Textbook Indian,” and Settler Colonialism, 1920–1970. British Columbia Journal, 169, 101–132.
• Common Core State Standards for English language arts & literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. (2010). Common Core State Standards Initiative.
• Elder, L., Gorzycki M., & Paul R. (2019). The student guide to historical thinking: Going beyond dates, places, and names to the core of history. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Epstein, T. (2009). Interpreting national history, race, identity, and pedagogy in classrooms and communities. Routledge.
• Gross, M. H. & Terra L. (2018). What makes difficult history difficult? The Phi Delta Kappan, 99(8), 51–56.
• Gross, M. H. & Terra L., eds. (2019) Teaching and learning the difficult past: Comparative perspectives. Routledge.
• Ladson-Billings, Gloria (Ed.) (2003) Critical race theory perspectives on the social studies: The Profession, Policies, and Curriculum. Information Age Publishing.
• Loewen, J. (1995/2018/). Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American History textbook got wrong. The New Press.
• Moreau, J. (2011). School book nation: Conflicts over American History textbooks from the Civil War to the present. University of Michigan Press.
• Southern Poverty Law Center. (2018). Teaching hard history.
• The 1776 report. (2021). The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. The White House.
• Ward, K. (2006). History in the making: An absorbing look at how American History has changed in the telling over the last 200 years. The New Press.
• Waxman, O. (2023, April 6). New data shows the anti-critical race theory movement is ‘far from over.’ Time.
• Wineburg, S. (1999) Historical thinking and other unnatural acts. Kappan Classic, 94(4), 81–95.
• Wineburg, S., & McGrew, S. (2017). Lateral reading: Reading less and learning more when evaluating digital information. Stanford History Education Group Working Paper No. 2017-A1.
• Trembath, S. (2018/2026). This Past Was Waiting for Me: A Chronicle at Quarter Century, Lazuli Literary Group. 
• Trembath, S. (2023a). What do our textbooks teach? [Course materials].

Metaliteracy and Critical Information Literacy

• Association of College & Research Libraries. (2016). Framework for information literacy for higher education.
• Leung, Sofia Y., Jorge R. Lopez-McKnight. (2021) Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory. MIT Press. 
• Mackey, T. P., & Jacobson T. E. (2019). Metaliterate learning for the post-truth world. American Library Association.

Mind-Body

• Breath & wellness. (2023). Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
• Cherry, K. (2022). What is cognitive dissonance? Verywell Mind.
• Hammond, Z. (2015). Culturally responsive teaching and the brain. SAGE Publications.
• Heal Your Nervous System Team. (2023). 47 practices to heal a dysregulated nervous system. Heal Your Nervous System.
• Huddy, L., Sears D.O., Levy J. S., & Jerit J. (Eds.). (2023). The Oxford handbook of political psychology (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
• Perry, W. G. (1970). Forms of intellectual and ethical development in the college years: A scheme. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
• Pittman, J. P. (2023). Double consciousness. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (Eds.).
• Rock, D. (2008). SCARF: A brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others. NeuroLeadership Journal, 1, 1-10.
• Thompson, R. A. (2019). Emotion dysregulation: A theme in search of definition. Development and Psychopathology, 31, 805–815.  
• Tzeses, J., & Bressler, R. (2020). Tell me everything I need to know about cognitive dissonance. Psycom.
• Van Kessel, C. (2021). Worldview Threat. The Grim Educator.
• Van Kessel, C., Jacobs N., Catena, F., & Edmondson, K. (2022), Responding to worldview threats in the classroom: An exploratory study of preservice teachers. Journal of Teacher Education 2022, 73(1), 97–109.
• Vogels, E. A., Anderson, M., Porteus, M., Baronavski, C., Atske, S., McClain, C., Auxier, B., Perrin, A., & Ramshankar, M. (2021). Americans and ‘cancel culture’: Where some see calls for accountability, others see censorship, punishment. Pew Research Center.

Race and Antiracism

• Du Bois, W. E. B. (1903/2012). The souls of Black folk. Amazon Classics.
• Fanon, F. (1963/2004). The wretched of the earth. Grove Press. Fisher, D., & Frey N. (2014). 
• hooks, b. (2001). Salvation: Black people and love. Harper Perennial.
• Martínez, E. (1998). What is white supremacy? Catalyst Project.
• Woodson, C. G. (1933/2010). The Mis-education of the Negro. Seven Treasures Publications. Writing spaces: Readings on writing [Book series]. Writing Spaces.
• Sanchez, S. (2018, May 27). Commencement speech. Swarthmore University.
• Trouillot, M. (2015). Silencing the past: Power and the Production of History (20th anniversary edition). Beacon Press.

Writing and Writing Pedagogy

• Akassi, M. L., ed. (2011). Post-colonial composition pedagogy: Using the cultures of marginalized students to teach writing. Robbie Dean Press.
• Bartholomae, D., Petrosky, A., & Waite, S. (2017). Ways of reading: An anthology for writers (11th ed.). Bedford/St. Martin’s, Macmillan Learning.
• Berlin, J. A. (1984). Writing instruction in nineteenth-century American colleges. Southern Illinois University Press.
• Berlin, J. A. (1987). Rhetoric and reality: Writing instruction in American colleges, 1900–1985. Southern Illinois University Press.
• Bullock, R., & Weinberg, F. (2011). The little seagull handbook (1st ed.). Norton.
• Close reading and writing from sources. International Reading Association.
• Dollahite, N. E., & Huan J. (2012). Sourcework: Academic writing from sources (2nd ed.). Heinle/Cengage Learning.
• García, R., & Baca D. (2019). Rhetorics elsewhere and otherwise: Contested modernities, decolonial visions. Conference on College Composition and Communication/NCTE. 
• Gilyard, K., ed. (1999). Race, rhetoric, and composition. Boynton/Cook.
• Greene, S., & Lidinsky A. (2021). From inquiry to academic writing: A practical guide (2nd ed.). Bedford/St. Martin’s.
• Hacker, D., & Sommers, N. (2011). A writer’s reference (7th ed.). Bedford/St. Martin’s. 
• Hurlbert, C. (2012). National healing: Race, state, and the teaching of composition. Utah State University Press.
• Hurlbert, C. M. & Blitz M. (Eds.). (1991). Composition & resistance. Heinemann.
• Kristensen, Randi Gray & Ryan M. Claycomb. (2010). Writing against the curriculum. Lexington Books.
• Lunsford, A. A. (n.d.). The everyday writer (5th ed.), Bedford/St. Martin’s.
• Lunsford, A. A., Moglen H., & Slevin J. (1990). The right to literacy. MLA.
• Lynn, S. (2010). Rhetoric and composition: An introduction, Cambridge University Press.
• Perry, P. H. (2000). A Composition of Consciousness: Roads of Reflection from Freire and Elbow. Peter Lang.
• Rifenberg, J. M., Portanova P., & Roen D. (2021). Pedagogical perspectives on cognition and writing. Parlor Press.
• Robinson, M. B., Jerskey M., & Fulwiler T. (2021). Writing guide with handbook. Openstax.
• Rosen, L. J. (2009). The academic writer’s handbook (2nd ed.). Pearson/Longman. 
• Spatt, B. (2011). Writing from sources (8th ed.). Bedford/St. Martin’s. Stanford History Education Group. (n.d.). Reading like a historian.
• Tate, G., Rupiper, A., & Schick, K. (2001). A guide to composition pedagogies. Oxford University Press.
• Villanueva, V., & Arola, K. L. (Eds.). (2011). Cross-talk in comp theory: A reader. National Council of Teachers of English.
• WPA outcomes statement for first-year composition. (2014). Council of Writing Program Administrators.