a couple of books that might be of interest

[Dara Sandow]

I just came across the following and thought others on the list might be interested as well:

Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children

Edited by Danny Bernard Martin

Routledge, 2009

About the Book

With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education research and policy, Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children fills the need for authoritative, rigorous scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities. This timely collection significantly extends the knowledge base on mathematics teaching, learning, participation, and policy for black children and it provides new framings of relevant issues that researchers can use in future work. More importantly, this book helps move the field beyond analyses that continue to focus on and normalize failure by giving primacy to the stories that black learners tell about themselves and to the voices of mathematics educators whose work has demonstrated a commitment to the success of these children.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Section I: Mapping A Liberatory Research and Policy Agenda

1. Liberating the Production of Knowledge About African American Children and Mathematics, Danny Bernard Martin

Section II: Pedagogy, Standards, and Assessment

2. Researching African American Mathematics Teachers of African American Students: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations, Lawrence M. Clark, Whitney Johnson & Daniel Chazan

3. "This Little Light of Mine!" Entering Voices of Cultural Relevancy into the Mathematics Teaching Conversation, Lou Edward Matthews

4. Instructional Strategies and Dispositions of Teachers Who Help African American Students Gain Conceptual Understanding, Carol E. Malloy

5. Contrasting Pedagogical Styles and Their Impact on African American Students, Robert Q. Berry III & Oren L. McClain
6. More than Test Scores: How Teachers' Classroom Practice Contributes to and What Student Work Reveals about Black Students' Mathematics Performance and Understanding, Erica N. Walker

Section III: Socialization, Learning, and Identity

7. The Social Construction of Youth and Mathematics: The Case of a Fifth-Grade Classroom, Kara J. Jackson

8. Identity at the Crossroads: Understanding the Practices and Forces that Shape African American Success and Struggle in Mathematics, Joi A. Spencer

9. Wrestling with the Legacy of Stereotypes: Being African American in Math Class, Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Grace Atukpawu, Kathleen O'Connor, Michael Davis, Sarah Wischnia & Jessica Tsang

10. Opportunities to Learn Geometry: Listening to the Voices of Three African American Students High School Students, Marilyn E. Strutchens & S. Kathy Westbrook

11. Negotiating Sociocultural Discourses: The Counter-Storytelling of Academically and Mathematically Successful African American Male Students, David W. Stinson

12. "Come Home, Then": Two Eighth-Grade Black Female Students' Reflections on their Mathematics Experiences, Yolanda A. Johnson
13. "Still Not Saved": The Power of Mathematics to Liberate the Oppressed, Jacqueline Leonard

Section IV: Collaboration and Reform

14. University/K-12 Partnerships: A Collaborative Approach to School Reform, Martin L. Johnson & Stephanie Timmons Brown

Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education

Edited by Brian Greer, Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Arthur B. Powell, Sharon Nelson-Barber

Routledge, 2009

About the Book

At a time of rapid demographic change and amidst the many educational challenges facing the US, this critical new collection presents mathematics education from a culturally responsive perspective. It tackles the most crucial issues of teaching mathematics to an ethnically diverse school population, including the political dimension of mathematics education within the context of governmental efforts to improve achievement in school mathematics. Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education moves beyond a point of view that is internal to mathematics education as a discipline, and instead offers a broad perspective of mathematics as a significant, liberating intellectual force in our society. The editors of this volume bring together contributions from many of the leading teachers, teacher educators, researchers, scholars, and activists who have been working to reorient mathematics education in ways that reflect mathematics education as accomplished, first and foremost, through human interactions.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Brian Greer, Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Sharon Nelson-Barber, and Arthur B. Powell

Part I: Foundations and Backgrounds

1. Culture and the Development of Mathematics: An Historical Perspective, Frank J. Swetz

2. New Philosophy of Mathematics: Implications for Mathematics Education, Paul Ernest

3. An Ethnomathematical Perspective on Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education, Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Arthur B. Powell and Marilyn Frankenstein

4. Seeing With Many Eyes: Connections Between Anthropology and Mathematics, Jim Barta and Mary E. Brenner

5. What Mathematics Teachers Need to Know about Culture and Language, Judit Moschkovich and Sharon Nelson-Barber

6. The Politics of Mathematics Education in the United States: Dominant and Counter Agendas, Eric Gutstein
7. Conceptions of Assessment of Mathematical Proficiency and their Implications for Cultural Diversity, Dalton Miller-Jones and Brian Greer

Part II: Teaching and Learning

8. Preparing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teachers, Geneva Gay

9. Mathematics Literacy and Liberation: Reframing Mathematics Education for African American Children, Danny Bernard Martin and Ebony O. McGee

10. Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education in the Algebra Project, Robert Moses, Mary Maxwell West and Frank E. Davis

11. A Two-Way Process for Developing Effective Culturally Based Math: Examples from Math in a Cultural Context, Jerry Lipka, Evelyn Yanez, Dora Andrew-Ihrke and Shehenaz Adam

12. Native-American Analogues to the Cartesian Coordinate System, Ron Eglash

13. Privileging Mathematics and Equity in Teacher Education: Framework, Counter-Resistance Strategies and Reflections from a Latina Mathematics Educator, Julia M. Aguirre

14. Latina Mothers' Perceptions about the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: Implications for Parental Participation, Marta Civil and Beatriz Quintos
15. Culturally Responsive College Level Mathematics, Mark K. Davis, Shandy Hauk and M. Paul Latiolais