ABSTRACT
Reading Carl Grant and Gloria Ladson-Billings’ account of the journey of multicultural education in the United States, from its censorship and marginalization to the seemingly central position it has today, one can not help but celebrate that the 1998 AERA Annual Meeting was devoted to multiculturalism (Grant & Ladson-Billings, 1997). Forged through much struggle and pain by those who suffered and challenged multiple forms of oppression, multiculturalism has clearly become one of the most successful contemporary educational discourses not only in North America but worldwide.
