Postwar Pluralism, Brown v. Board of Education, and the Origins of Multicultural Education.

MULTICULTURALISM; ETHNOCENTRISM; LIBERALISM; AFRICAN Americans; CULTURAL pluralism

Argues that the tendency to conflate multiculturalism in the U.S. with ethnocentrism ignores the continuity between multiculturalism and postwar racial liberalism. Beliefs of cultural pluralists; Characteristics of pluralism in the postwar era; Importance of the decision of African American leaders to welcome the therapeutic approach to race relations.