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Beyond a Dream Deferred Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence Becky W. Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi, editors |
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Beyond A Dream Deferred is a multidisciplinary work that consolidates progressive perspectives on multicultural education, establishing it as a crucial sphere in a society charged with reimagining its national identity in all its diversity. Drawing on the perspectives of faculty, administrators, and students—both activists and intellectuals—contributors include Troy Duster, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Earl Jackson, Jr., Chandra Mohanty, and Cornel West. "If you want to know what multicultural education is all about, this book is the single best place to start. This book is clear and accessible to a broad audience. It is a major contribution to the theory and practice of multicultural education across the disciplines. And it's a good read." —Contemporary Sociology “If you want to know what multicultural education is all about, this book is the single best place to start. Derrick Bell’s foreword, the editors’ introduction, and the contributors’ essays are all written with the scholarly engagement the authors advocate. This book is clear and accessible to a broad audience. It is a major contribution to the theory and practice of multicultural education across the disciplines. And it’s a good read.” —Life Course “Beyond a Dream Deferred, offers description of some efforts to revise racial belief systems currently transmitted in American universities. The detailed, practical accounts provide, nevertheless, more information than most anti-PC polemics have.” —American Studies International Contributors include Margaret L. Andersen, Estelle Disch, Troy Duster, Lisa Kahaleole Chang Hall, Evelynn Hammonds, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Earl Jackson, Jr., Ian Haney López, Carole C. Marks, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Barbara Omolade, Becky W. Thompson, Sangeeta Tyagi, and Cornel West. Becky W. Thompson is an assistant professor of sociology at the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis. She is the author of A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism, Mothering without a Compass: White Mother's Love, Black Son's Courage, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep. Sangeeta Tyagi is assistant professor f sociology at Roanoke College in Virginia, where she teaches comparative race and ethnic relations and Third World feminist theory. Derrick Bell is professor of law at New York University. Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights 302 pages | 1993 |
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