Drawn from Banks' formidable canon, this collection highlights the conceptual, curricular, and pedagogical issues related to the "citizenship-education dilemma" and signals a fundamental shift towards transformative citizenship education.

James A. Banks is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus. He was the Founding Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, which is now the Banks Center for Educational Justice. Banks is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), a fellow of AERA, a member of the National Academy of Education, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME).

Part One: Race, Knowledge Construction, and Transformative Curriculum Reform; Introduction;

1. The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education; 2. The Historical Reconstruction of Knowledge About Race: Implications for Transformative Teaching; 3. The Lives and Values of Researchers: Implications for Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society; Part Two: Cultural Democracy and Civic Education in Diverse Nations; 4. Cultural Democracy, Citizenship Education, and the American Dream; 5. Diversity and Citizenship Education in Multicultural Nations; Part Three: Diversity, Global Migration, and Civic Education; 6. Diversity, Group Identity, and Citizenship Education in a Global Context; 7. Failed Citizenship and Transformative Civic Education; 8. Civic Education for Non-Citizen and Citizen Students; Selected Publications of James A. Banks