This volume assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. The volume is grouped around four central questions raised by multiculturalism; Is universalism ethnocentric?; Does multiculturalism threaten citizenship?; Do minorities require group rights?; and what can Europe learn from North America? The book aims to answer these questions by moving the debate about multicultural questions into a more consensual mode. The authors show a resistance to either endorsing or rejecting multiculturalism, but a preference for dissecting and differentiating the concrete historical and geographical contexts in which specified versions of multiculturalism make sense, and others in which they do not.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum1999-10-07
  • Mått164 x 242 x 20 mm
  • Vikt546 g
  • SpråkEngelska
  • Antal sidor278
  • FörlagOUP OXFORD
  • EAN9780198296102