The Power of Words curriculum is based on cultural anthropologist Phil Herbst's ground-breaking dictionaries, The Color of Words: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United States (ISBN 1-877864-97-8 ; $29.95) and Wimmin, Wimps and Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias in the United States (1-877864-80-3 ; $44.95), both available from:

Intercultural Press
P.O. Box 700
Yarmouth, ME 04096
Toll-free: 866-372-2665
www.interculturalpress.com

Additional Resources and Reading

American Civil Liberties Union. 7 July 2004. http://www.aclu.org/

Anti-Defamation League. 7 July 2004. http://www.adl.org/adl.asp

Carnes, Jim. Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Davis, F.J. "The Nation's Rule, Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition." 1991: 1-16. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 9 July 2004. View text

Feminist Majority Foundation. 7 July 2004. http://www.feminist.org/

Finzi, Roberto, and Maud Jackson. Antisemitism: From Its European Roots to the Holocaust. New York: Interlink Books, 1999.

Greenpeace International. 7 July 2004. http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/

Griffin, John. "Hawai'i's Ethnic Rainbow." Opinion. 14 March 2004. Honolulu Advertiser. 7 July 2004. View text

Herbst, Philip. Talking Terrorism: A Dictionary of the Loaded Language of Political Violence. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003. View more information

Human Rights Campaign. 7 July 2004. http://www.hrc.org/

Johnson, Allan G. Privilege, Power, and Difference. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 2001.

Kamiya, Gary. "Cablinasian Like Me." Salon. 30 April 1997: 17 pars. 9 July 2004 View text

La Ferla, Ruth. "Fashion Finds Racial Ambiguity a Nice Fit." Timeout. 5 January 2004.

Contra Costa Times. 7 July 2004. View text

Lockhart, Janet, and Susan M. Shaw. Writing for Change: Raising Awareness of Difference, Power, and Discrimination. 2002. Teaching Tolerance. 12 July 2004 View Writing for Change

Matas, David. Bloody Words: Hate and Free Speech. Winnipeg: Bain and Cox, Publishers. 2000.

Matsuda, Mari J., Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberlè Williams Crenshaw. Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Inc., 1993.

Miller, Casey, and Kate Swift. The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing for Writers, Editors and Speakers. New York: Lippincott & Crowell, Publishers, 1980.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 7 July 2004. http://www.naacp.org/

National Organization for Women. 7 July 2004. http://www.now.org/

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. 7 July 2004. http://www.pflag.org/

Pulera, Dominic. Visible Differences: Why Race Will Matter to Americans in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Continuum, 2002.

Shaw, Susan M., and Janet Lee. Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings. 2nd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Simon Wiesenthal Center. 7 July 2004. http://www.wiesenthal.com/

Sloan, Lacey M., and Nora S. Gustavsson, eds. Violence and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1998.

Southern Poverty Law Center. 7 July 2004. http://www.splcenter.org/

Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1993.

Thernstrom, Stephan. "One Drop-Still: A Racialist's Census." National Review. 17 April 2000. The Manhattan Institute. 9 July 2004 View text

Valdivia, Angharad N. "Latinas as Radical Hybrid: Transnationally Gendered Traces in Mainstream Media." Global Media Journal 2.4 (2004): 17 pars.

Wright, Lawrence. "One Drop of Blood." The New Yorker. 24 July 1994. Alachua Freenet. 9 July 2004. View text

Young, Paul. "Hell's Angel." Maxim October 2000: 108-116.

Zakim, Leonard P. Confronting Antisemitism: A Practical Guide. Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2000.