The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: interethnic contact and change in education in the 21st century

Examines multicultural education, including issues such as diversity and social identity in the US educational system; 11 articles. Contents: 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education: the promise and challenge of multicultural education, by Sabrina Zirkel, Nancy Cantor; The benefits of diversity in education for democratic citizenship, by Patricia Gurin, Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda, Gretchen E. Lopez; Developing a more inclusive social identity: an elementary school intervention, by Melissa A. Houlette, Samuel L. Gaertner, Kelly M. Johnson, Brenda S. Banker, Blake M. Riek, John F. Dovidio; What will you think of me? racial integration, peer relationships and achievement among White students and students of color, by Sabrina Zirkel; Interethnic contact, curriculum, and attitudes in the first year of college, by Gretchen E. Lopez; Is there an inherent mismatch between how Black and White students expect to succeed in college and what their colleges expect from them?, by Aaron M. Brower, Annemarie Ketterhagen; Family life and school experience: factors in the racial identity development of Black youth in White communities, by Beverly Daniel Tatum; Shift happens: Spanish and English transmission between parents and their children, by Aída Hurtado, Luis A. Vega; Students' of color and European American students' stigma-relevant perceptions of university instructors, by Lisa M. Brown, Heather Dobbins; Color-line as fault-line: teaching interethnic relations in California in the 21st century, by Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.; Learning about difference, learning with others, learning to transgress, by Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda, Chan-woo Kim, Yaffa Truelove.