CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Title: Educating the Salad Bowl: The Past, Present, and Future of Minority Students and Educational Leadership in America

 Title: Educating the Salad Bowl: The Past, Present, and Future of
Minority Students and Educational Leadership in America

Editor: Bruce Makoto Arnold, Ph.D., Louisiana State University

This book is already under contract. Selected chapters are guaranteed
publication.

The purpose of this book is to expand our understanding of the history
of minority education in the United States (post-1870) from an
educational leadership perspective and how those past experiences can
influence the future of minority education. Historiographical
scholarship continues to explore and understand how the "salad bowl"
of American minority ethnicities have been served (and, perhaps,
underserved) in the American educational experience. Educational
leaders--superintendents, school boards, principals, college
presidents, etc.--are at the heart of most of decisions pertaining to
minority education, but those decisions are heavily influenced by the
surrounding culture, sense of modernity, and political necessities
surrounding the decision makers.

It is important to note that this book is grounded in a broad concept
of cultural history and the editor seeks to be inclusive of all types,
styles, and traditions of historical scholarship within that
framework. The editor welcomes proposals covering particularly
understudied minorities including old and new Asian and Southeast
Asian immigrants (Chinese, Japanese, Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian,
Indian, etc.), Native Americans, Hispanics, Middle Eastern, Caribbean
Islanders, African American, LGBTQ, etc. Also, the editor looks
forward to receiving topics outside of the scope of
administration-curricula and encourages proposals that cover topics
such as how educational leaders promote their institutions to
minorities and how these leaders make non-curriculum-related decisions
(e.g. food, sports, field trips, and other extracurricular activities)
vis-à-vis minority students.

It is important that contributors are able to link their historical
research with the future of minority educational administration and
all contributors must indicate how they intend to do this in their
proposal.

I invite you to submit a proposal of approximately 750 words,
excluding references (this book will use Chicago-style endnotes).
Deadlines for the submission of proposals is February 28, 2014. All
proposals will be subject to editorial review and evaluation based on
the following criteria: (1) Proposals should be aligned with the
purpose of broadening the knowledge base of education leadership as it
pertains to minority education at the K-12 level; (2) Proposals that
stress the history of educational leadership as it pertains to
minority students and what future leaders can learn from the past will
be prioritized; (3) Proposals should clearly articulate a
historiographical argument, approach/framework, and conclusion that
answers the stated argument;(5) Proposals should present findings as
thoroughly as possible and discuss how these findings constitute a
novel contribution to the historiography of educational leadership and
minority students. After the evaluation of proposals by the editorial
team, selected authors will be invited to submit a full-length chapter
by June 30, 2014. These chapters will then be subject to blind peer
review. The publication date for the book is yet to be determined, but
is expected in winter 2014.

Please send all proposal submissions, questions, or comments to Bruce
Makoto Arnold at eduleadershipbook@gmail.com.