Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence

by Becky Thompson, Sangeeta Tyagi (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816622696
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	09/30/1993
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.