Welcome to WOKE: A Guide to becoming Culturally Conscious: Education in the United States! After participating with this text, you will be more aware of each individual in your classroom and of the culture(s) that he/she/they bring with them every day, making you an even better teacher. This experience will also allow you to reflect on your own culture(s), allowing you to better understand those around you. It will be an intense text with a good deal of self-reflection, thinking, reading, writing, and mini projects. However, this experience that you will surely leave you changed.
0. Preface
1. What Is Culture?
2. American Indians, Indians, Native Americans, Indigenous, or Natives?
3. Migrants, Emigrants, Asylum Seekers, Immigrants, and Refugees
4. African Americans
5. Asian Americans
6. Hispanic, Latinx, and Mexican Americans
7. “White” Men
8. Women’s Rights
9. LGBTQIA+ Americans
10. Americans with Disabilities
11. Americans with Mental Health Struggles
12. American’s Social Classes
13. Americans With Different Spiritual and Religious Beliefs
14. Culturally Responsive Teaching
15. The Rest of the World