Stephen J Caldas Author & Editor

Stephen J. Caldas is Professor of Educational Foundations and Leadership at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He has authored or co-authored more than 45 publications, including the book entitled A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana, which was awarded the Louisiana Library Assn. Literary Award for 2002.

Carl L. Bankston III is Professor of Sociology at Tulane University. He has been author or co-author of several previous books, including Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (winner of the 1999 Thomas and Znaniecki Award and the Mid South Sociological Association's 2000 Distinguished Book Award), A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana (winner of the 2002 Louisiana Library Association Literary Award), and Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity. He has also edited six books and authored over 85 journal articles and book chapters.