Multiculturalism and American democracy / edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman.

Contributor Melzer, Arthur M.

Imprint:Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1998.

Descriptionviii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Essays collected here were delivered as papers at a conference sponsored by the body Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy, held in April 1993 at Michigan State University.

Note:Is assimilation dead? / Nathan Glazer. - The limits of pluralism / K. Anthony Appiah. - Meanings for multiculturalism / C. Van Woodward. - Boutique multiculturalism / Stanley Fish. - Constitutionalism and multiculturalism / Walter Berns. - Majoritarian democracy and cultural minorities / Bernard Boxill. - Democratic multiculturalism / Wilson Carey McWilliams. - The virtues of multiculturalism / Anne Norton. - Multiculturalism and American liberal democracy / James Ceaser. - Liberal democracy, universalism, and multiculturalism / Marc F. Plattner. - Civic education in a changing society / Linda Chavez. - Multiculturalism and civic education / Lorraine Pangle. - What is a classic? / J.M. Coetzee. - Fiction: the power of lies / Mario Vargas Llosa.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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