Noreen Naseem Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education and Educational Justice in the College of Education and Core Faculty in the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University. She studies the pedagogical practices of Asian American educators and how elementary educators teach so-called "difficult histories" through children's literature and primary sources. Before becoming a teacher educator, she was a bilingual elementary teacher in Austin, Texas for nine years.

Katy Swalwell is Lead Equity Specialist for the Equity Literacy Institute and founder of Past Present Future Media & Consulting. A former classroom teacher and tenured university professor, she explores how social studies education can help people of all ages become better at identifying and disrupting oppression. In addition to publishing research in peer-reviewed journals, practitioner magazines, and other academic books, she has created the Amazing Iowa children's book series ([...]) and co-hosts an irreverent history podcast called Our Dirty Laundry, which examines white women's complicity in white supremacy.

Prologue

Part I

Why Social Studies Can Change the World

1 The Social Studies

2 The Transformative Potential of Social Studies

Part II

Common Pitfalls and Creative Solutions

3 Normalization: Families and Holidays

4 Idealization: Communities and Community Helpers

5 Heroification: The "Founding Fathers," Suffragists, and Civil Rights Movement Leaders

6 Dramatization and Gamification: Immigration, "Westward Expansion," and Slavery

Part III

Planning and Sustaining Anti-Oppressive Social Studies

7 Building Better Curriculum

8 How to Teach Anti-Oppressive Social Studies and Not Get Fired

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References

Appendix A: Recommended Resources: The Tip of the Iceberg

Appendix B: Educator Tools and Guides