WERNER SOLLORS is a research professor of English at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professor of global literature at New York University Abu Dhabi, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of several books including Beyond Ethnicity and Neither Black nor White yet Both.

• Introduction 31 Literature and Ethnicity 192 National Identity and Ethnic Diversity 673 Dedicated to a Proposition 954 A Critique of Pure Pluralism 1215 The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text 145Notes 177Acknowledgments 205Index 207

"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." - Tom Socca (Boston Phoenix) "Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest."   - David Hollinger (coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook) “A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.”(Midwest Book Review)

WERNER SOLLORS is a research professor of English at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professor of global literature at New York University Abu Dhabi, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of several books including Beyond Ethnicity and Neither Black nor White yet Both.

• Introduction 31 Literature and Ethnicity 192 National Identity and Ethnic Diversity 673 Dedicated to a Proposition 954 A Critique of Pure Pluralism 1215 The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text 145Notes 177Acknowledgments 205Index 207

"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." - Tom Socca (Boston Phoenix) "Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest."   - David Hollinger (coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook) “A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.”(Midwest Book Review)

WERNER SOLLORS is a research professor of English at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professor of global literature at New York University Abu Dhabi, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of several books including Beyond Ethnicity and Neither Black nor White yet Both.

• Introduction 31 Literature and Ethnicity 192 National Identity and Ethnic Diversity 673 Dedicated to a Proposition 954 A Critique of Pure Pluralism 1215 The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text 145Notes 177Acknowledgments 205Index 207

"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." - Tom Socca (Boston Phoenix) "Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest."   - David Hollinger (coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook) “A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.”(Midwest Book Review)