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Article: Desegregating multiculturalism: problems in the theory and pedagogy of diversity education.
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- Social Justice
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- December 22, 2002
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The question I wish to pose for you is this: To what extent has multicultural education at the College level become an apology for inequality and segregation? To frame this issue, I want to address in very broad terms some of the contributions and contradictions of multiculturalism over the last 30 years.
When Carey McWilliams (1973:95) wrote about Southern California in 1946, he found "no visible reminder" of Chinese legacies. "There is not a single Chinese place-name in Southern California," he observed. This erasure of whole peoples from historical memory was commonplace until quite recently. When I started teaching what is now known as "multiculturalism" in ...