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Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education

Multicultural education can improve understandings among students of different ethnic groups only if it is implemented systematically. Research with 75 adolescent mothers in an inner-city California high school shows how the celebration of Kwanzaa leads to exclusion and isolation and the speaking of Spanish results in conflict and resentments. (SLD)

• Author/Creator: Lustig, Deborah Freedman
• Date Published: Dec
• Journal/Secondary Title: Anthropology & Education Quarterly
• Number: 4
• Volume: 28
• Year: 1997

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Conflict
• Subject: Cultural Awareness
• Subject: Cultural Differences
• Subject: Ethnic Groups
• Subject: High Schools
• Subject: High School Students
• Subject: Mexican Americans
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Racial Discrimination
• Subject: Spanish Speaking
• Subject: Urban Schools

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