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Hot fudge sundae in a white paper cup : a spirited black woman in a white world / Gwendolyn Calvert Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Gwendolyn C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women educators--United States--Biography.
- African American women educators.
- Multicultural education--United States.
- Multicultural education.
- Baker, Gwendolyn C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn't just lived through the progression of multicultural considerations--she has been singularly instrumental in the creation and acceptance of multicultural education. In Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup, she shares her memories and experience of a lifetime spent serving and leading the causes for multicultural education.
- Contents:
- At first glance
- Taking a look at the real world
- The world around me
- Mixing education and marriage
- Balancing the roles of parent and student
- Student and professor
- Taking on Washington
- The big apple
- Leading a national organization
- An opportune platform for multicultural education
- More challenges : inside the United Nations
- A new chapter in my life
- My retirement in paradise.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-05237-3
- 0-472-12067-0
- OCLC:
- 902702238
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.6974801
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