From Center to Margins

Diane S. Pollard is Professor Emerita of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. She is the coeditor (with Cheryl S. Ajirotutu) of African-Centered Schooling in Theory and Practice. Olga M. Welch is Professor and Dean of the School of Education at Duquesne University and the coauthor (with Carolyn R. Hodges) of Standing Outside on the Inside: Black Adolescents and the Construction of Academic Identity, also published by SUNY Press.

• ForewordChristine E. Sleeter Introduction. Women Researchers of Color: Have We Come a Long WayOlga M. Welch and Diane S. Pollard 1. Women of Color and Research: A Historical and Contemporary ContextDiane S. Pollard 2. Making Intellectual Space: Self-determination and Indigenous ResearchFrances V. Rains  3. Reflections on the Process of Becoming an AcademicianBarbara Curry 4. Language, Literacy and Culture: Intersections and ImplicationsSonia Nieto  5. The Outsider within Multicultural Education: Understanding the Field from a Marginalized ViewpointValerie Ooka Pang 6. Seeing with the Cultural Eye: Different Perspectives of African American Teachers and ResearchersJacqueline Jordan Irvine 7. Response to Papers on From Center to Margin: The Importance of Self-definition in ResearchMaxine Greene 8. Making the Familiar Strange: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Erasure: Summarizing the Philosophies of Women Researchers of ColorOlga M. Welch ContributorsIndex