Description
Book SynopsisExplores the concepts and debates surrounding the modern phenomenon of multiculturalism, and its effects on the advanced industrial nations of the world. This title focuses on the interrelated ties of ethnicity, race, and nationalism in a world where globalizing processes have made such ties important in economic, political, and cultural terms.
Trade Review“Peter Kivisto has produced a characteristically insightful and incisive theoretical analysis of multiculturalism today. Genuinely comparative, this is cutting-edge work of high quality.”
Martin Bulmer, Editor, Ethnic and Racial Studies "Kivisto provides a concise and useful theoretical discussion of ethnic theories." E. Hu-DeHart, Brown University
Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps, and Tables.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Multicultural Societies and Globalization.
1. Ethnic Theory in a Global Age.
2. The United States as a Melting Pot: Myth and Reality.
3. Canada and Australia: Ethnic Mosaics and State-Sponsored Multiculturalism.
4. John Bull's Island: Britain in a Post-Colonial World.
5. Germany, France, and Shifting Conceptions of Citizenship.
6. Multicultural Prospects and Twenty-first Century Realities.
References.
