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AFFIRMING DIVERSITY: THE SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
by Sonia Nieto.
New York: Longman Publishing Group, 1992. 335 pp. $38.75.
Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, by Sonia Nieto, is a comprehensive work that addresses in an integrated way fundamental facets of multicultural education, underscoring the responsibility that the public school system in the United States has for embracing multicultural education in its full complexity.
While acknowledging other equally significant differences such as gender, sexual preference, and social class, Nieto grounds her exploration of multicultural education on three particular sociopolitical distinctions: race, ethnicity, and language. She justifies this choice by alluding to her personal experience and to the history of multicultural education.
From the table of contents, the reader can get an idea of the comprehensiveness of this work, which includes young people's case studies. The book is organized in two main sections. The first section, encompassing chapters 1-6, is devoted to developing a conceptual framework that inextricably places multicultural education within a sociopolitical...