Beyond Brown: Promoting Equality Through Multicultural Education

Overview & Synopsis

This article looks at the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, discusses the formative stages of multicultural education, and explains the shifting contours of multicultural education, along with some reasons for these developmental changes. It explores two specific domains of multicultural education--curriculum desegregation and equity pedagogy--in greater detail to demonstrate how the field has changed over time and to amplify why they are avenues for educational equality. A brief summary of the emergent body of multicultural research concludes the article. The intent throughout is to show how educational desegregation and equality are advanced by multicultural education and the changes occurring in the field.