TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword, Christine Sleeter. Introduction: Ethnicity and RaceuCreating Educational Opportunities for Equity and Social Justice Around the Globe, Elinor L. Brown and Pamela E. Gibbons. PART I: INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND POLICIES ON RACIAL AND ETHNIC EDUCATION. Educational Policy Toward Minorities in Russia: History and ModernityuThe Case of Kalmyk Education, Liubov Chetyrova. American Public Education: Gatekeeper and Broker of Social, Political, and Economic Dominance, Elinor L. Brown and John J. Harris. Changing Attainment of Higher Education Among ChinaAEs Ethnicities: Comparison of 1990 and 2000 National Census Data, Stephen Bahry. The Politics of Charter School Diversity, Wayne D. Lewis. PART II: HIGHER EDUCATION TRAINING FOR RACIAL AND ETHNIC SOCIAL JUSTICE. Pop Culture: An Instructional Strategy for Cross-Cultural Training in Medical Education, Madison Gates, Elinor L. Brown, and Pangela Dawson. Three-Dimensional Representations of Social Work StudentsAE Identity: A Mixed-Method Analysis in a Multicultural Population, Julie Cwikel and Ephrat Huss. Friends, Whanau, and Students: Their Perceptions of and Contributions to the Academic Experiences of Maori and Pacific Island (Pasifika) University Students in New Zealand, Camille Nakhid. PART III: INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES THAT NURTURE MULTIETHNIC UNITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. Bringing Higher Education to Displaced Ethnic Minorities on the Thai-Burma Border: Three Academic Models for Overcoming International, Ethnic, and Technological Barriers, Susan Costello, Marie Joyce, Michael Smith, S. J. Duncan MacLaren, and Thein Naing. A Case for the Use of Collaborative Tools for Research, Development, and Professional Service, Azra Naseem, and Susan Crichton. Accessible, Appropriate, and Effective Education: The Case of Nettel@Africa, Mark Beattie . PART IV: COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP FOR ETHNIC AND RACIAL SOCIAL JUSTICE. Freedom From Exploitative Child Labor Practices in East Africa: Strategies and Complications, Vachel Miller. Debney Park: Politics and Practices Amid Changing Ethnic Diversity in One Australian Secondary School, Madeleine M. Laming. Seeing Color: Diversity as a Palette for Teaching, Elite Ben-Yosef. Global Citizenship Education: Learning to be Part of a World Community, Ron Israel, Vachel Miller, and Susan F. Reed. About the Authors. Reviewers.