ABSTRACT

A few years ago at the curriculum conference in Richmond, British Columbia, devoted to Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, and Curriculum, I asked an assembled group of about 200, “How many of you are ethnics?” About 50 hands went up. I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that the remaining 150 considered themselves non-ethnic. I thought it likely the latter group felt that ethnics are those people over there, about whom we write, about whom we talk, about whom we film, about whom we package into curriculum, about whom we conference.