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Multiculturalism Is a Condition of the Heart: White Voices Inside the Walls of Southern Universities

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Published/Copyright: May 7, 2015
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Abstract

Multiculturalism was founded after the genocide of the Holocaust to ensure acts of annihilation toward a people group never again occurred. Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, diverse faculty and diverse students are still underrepresented in universities. In absentia and expecting more diverse faculty, how can White faculty effectively promote moral multiculturalism?

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Note

Portions of this work were previously published as a chapter in Obiakor, F. E., Bakken, J., Rotatori, T., & Algozzine, B. (Eds.) (2014). White voices in multicultural education: How they came to be. Hauppauge, NY: Science Publishers.


Published Online: 2015-5-7
Published in Print: 2015-9-1

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