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According to Banks (2006) and Spring (2008), multicultural education in its current form has a fairly recent lineage. This lineage can be traced back to the United States Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Prior to this moment in history, education was separate and unequal for cultural and ethnic minorities (as well as women and people with disabilities) and rested upon the foundation of assimilation.

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  1. Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, Adelphi University, USA

    Pavan John Antony

  2. Washington State University, USA

    Xyanthe Nicole Neider (Writing Program)

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Antony, P.J., Neider, X.N. (2016). Multicultural Issues. In: Thornburg, D., Mungai, A.M. (eds) High-Need Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-705-4_5

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