Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.
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Social movements and the politics of difference / Cheryl Zarlenga Kerchis and Iris Marion Young -- Multicultural America: living in a sea of diversity / John A. Garcia -- Racial and ethnic complexities in American life: implications for African Americans / Lucius T. Outlaw -- Whose rights shall we promote? / Robert Dawidoff -- Five faces of oppression / Iris Marion Young -- Contemporary Chicano struggles / Isidro Ortiz and Paula Timmerman -- Dominant culture: El Deseo por un Alma Pobre (the desire for an impoverished soul) / María Lugones and Joshua Price -- Korean American dilemma: violence, vengeance, vision / Edward T. Chang and Angela E. Oh -- White privilege: the rhetoric and the facts / Carolyn B. Murray and J. Owens Smith -- Dialogue and diversity: communication across groups / Mary Jane Collier.
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So-called multiculturalists have been recently targeted by journalists and scholars arguing that such apologists are the cause of contemporary cultural fragmentation, racism, neo-segregation, lowered standards, and a radicalism that ignores the wishes of mainstream America. This book is an introduction to some of the ideas underlying the claims multiculturalists make for diversity, inclusion, and complexity, and is one of the first rejoinders minorities have presented to combat the onslaught. Spanning the philosophical spectrum from difference to competent intercultural communication, each ess.
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