Multi.Ethnic Coalition Building in a Diverse School District

Abstract

With rapid demographic changes occurring in communities and schools, there is a need or studies that focus on strategies for building cooperative relations between racial and ethnic groups. Using the methodology of critical ethnography, this article examines the process of coalition building in a school district where Latinos and Asian-Pacific Americans have become the majority. Although racial incidents led to conflict between the different racial/ethnic groups in the district, a multi-cultural leadership and ideology emerged to focus on the structural foundations of conflict.