Pepi Leistyna is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception and coeditor (with Arlie Woodrum and Stephen A. Sherblom) of Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy.

Foreword
Multiculturalism Revisited: Pepi Leistyna's Politics of the Concrete
Peter McLaren

Introduction

Part One: Theoretically and Historically Contextualizing the Study

1. Critical Mulicultural Education: What is It?
2. A History of Changeton and its Public Schools
3. Facing Oppression: Youth Voices from the Front
4. The Formation of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee (CSC): Its Basic Processes, Functions, and Structures

Part Two: The Work of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee

5. The Development of the Multicultural Central Steering Committee's Mission Statement
6. Professional Development: Raising Consciousness among the Faculty and Staff
7. Curriculum Development and Instruction
8. Diversifying the Faculty and Staff
9. Creating a Partnership between the School and the Public

Part Three: The Impact of Multicultural Education in Changeton over the Years

10. In the Aftermath: A Dialogue with Three Changeton Teachers
11. Two Letters to Changeton Educators
12. Challenges for the Future

Appendix / Research Methodology
Notes
Bibiliography