Visioning Multicultural Education

Organized by the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), this volume explores the organic relationship between the past, present, and future of the discipline. In particular, the book addresses the various forms of recent social upheaval, from educational inequities and growing economic divides to extreme ideological differences and immigration conflicts. Written by a group of eminent and emerging scholars, chapters draw lessons from the past two decades and celebrate present accomplishments in order to ambition a better future through multicultural education.

H. Prentice Baptiste is Regents and Distinguished Achievement Professor, at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was NAME’s President (2016 to 2018), and founding member (1990). Baptiste has authored /edited seven books, and over 125 publications on multicultural education and presented papers internationally, e.g. in Nigeria, Germany, Jamaica, Morocco, Netherlands.

Jeanette Haynes Writer (Tsalagi/Cherokee Nation citizen) is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Her areas of scholarship include critical multicultural and social justice education; Tribal Critical Race Theory; Native American education; and teacher education.