Beyond A Dream Deferred

Beyond A Dream Deferred

Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence

Becky Thompson

Contributions by Sangeeta Tyagi

304 Pages, 6 x 9 in

  • Paperback
  • 9780816622696
  • Published: September 30, 1993
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Beyond A Dream Deferred

Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence

Becky Thompson

Contributions by Sangeeta Tyagi

ISBN: 9780816622696

Publication date: September 30th, 1993

304 Pages

9 x 6

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.

Becky W. Thompson is assistant professor in the Center for Research on Women at Memphis State University.

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.