Introduction: resisting zones of comfort in multiculturalism / Sandra Jackson and José Solís -- White studies: the intellectual imperialism of U.S. higher education / Ward Churchill -- Multiculturalism: war in America continues / Imari Abubakari Obadele -- Nuestra realidad: historical roots of our Latino identity / Félix Masud-Piloto -- The Politics of culture: multicultural education after the content debate / Cameron McCarthy and Arlette Ingram Willis -- Academic apartheid: American Indian studies and "multiculturalism" / Marie Annette Jaimes * Guerrero -- The Doorkeepers: education and internal settler colonialism, the Mexican experience / Priscilla Lujan Falcón -- Negotiating self-defined standpoints in teaching and learning / Sandra Jackson -- Entre la marquesina y la cocina / José Solís -- Deconstructing mainstream discourse through Puerto Rican women's oral narratives / Lourdes Torres -- Education in community: the role of multicultural education / Terence O'Connor -- Core culture and core curriculum in South Africa / Neville Alexander -- The Peer review group: writing, negotiation, and metadiscourse in the English classroom / Linda Williamson Nelson -- The Cultural ethos of the academy: potentials and perils for multicultural education reform / Geneva Gay and Wanda Fox