Selected Publications
Binder, Amy. 2002. Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools, Princeton University Press.
Winner of the 2003 Best Book Prize of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
Winner of the 2002 Distinguished Scholarship Prize of the Pacific Sociological Association.
Binder, Amy. 2000. "Why Do Some Curricular Challenges 'Work' While Others Do Not? The Case of Three Afrocentric Challenges: Atlanta, Washington DC, and New York State." Sociology of Education
Binder, Amy. 1999. "Friend and Foe: Boundary Work and Collective Identity in the Afrocentric and Multicultural Curriculum Movements in American Public Education," in The Cultural Territory of Race: Black and White Boundaries; Michele Lamont (ed.), University of Chicago Press/Russell Sage Foundation, pp.221-48.
Binder, Amy. 1993. "Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media Depictions of Harm in Heavy Metal and Rap Music," American Sociological Review, Volume 58 (December).