What to Read After The Shame of the Nation
Readers who loved The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Shame of the Nation is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Shame of the Nation
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race
Pedagogia do Oprimido
Other People's Children
Teaching to transgress
The dreamkeepers
We Make the Road by Walking
The Homework Myth
The flat world and education
The end of education
Experience and education
"Multiplication is for white people"
Unequal Childhoods
And Still We Rise
Letters to a Young Teacher
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Rachel and her children
Our America
White like me
The Working Poor
The First Days Of School
How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Essays
Death at an early age
A framework for understanding poverty
Are Prisons Obsolete?