From melting pot to witch's cauldron : how multiculturalism failed America

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Label

From melting pot to witch's cauldron : how multiculturalism failed America

Title remainder

how multiculturalism failed America

Statement of responsibility

Ernesto Caravantes

Creator

• Caravantes, Ernesto

Subject

• Cultural pluralism -- United States
• Ethnicity -- United States
• Multiculturalism -- United States
• United States -- Ethnic relations

Language

eng

Summary

This book explores what can happen when good intentions go askew. The author points out that the original wishes of the founders of the American Republic, as well as the desires of modern luminaries like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, have not been realized. He traces this problem to the radical activism of the 1960s, which introduced the notion of multiculturalism. In so doing, that activism completely erased all chances of seeing the dreams of these activists being brought into fruition. The author points out that the true and original aim of the multiculturalism movement was to have people of divergent ethnic backgrounds become unified by their differences, yet what is occurring is just the opposite. Xenophobia and ethno-centrism have developed among the different ethnic groups in the United States

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Index

no index present

LC call number

HM1271

LC item number

.C372 2010

Literary form

non fiction