Full Description
This book examines multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the melting pot metaphor and explores how they emerged, evolved, and were implemented throughout American history. Alfredo Montalvo-Barbot analyzes how these ideologies have been legitimized, institutionalized, and challenged by activists, politicians, and intellectuals and studies how modern interculturalism offers a new model for bridging the cultural divide and for overcoming the limitations of previous state-sponsored multicultural policies and programs.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Melting Pot, Pluralism, and Democracy
Chapter 2: Minority Resistance: The Internal Colonization Argument
Chapter 3: Decolonizing Education: The Ethnic Studies Movement
Chapter 4: The Birth of Multiculturalism
Chapter 5:Theorizing About Multiculturalism
Chapter 6: Bridging Cultures: The Emergence of Interculturalism
