Full Description
This book aims to assemble a variety of perspectives that have shaped the development of multicultural studies over the last years, and which today attempt at comprising the main contending lines of approach to both teaching and research within this rapidly expanding area of inquiry. Conceived as a panorama of diverse multicultural manifestations, it seeks to respond to the needs of a readership sharing an undivided interest in the labyrinthine nature of multiculturalism. In doing so, it endeavours to make the convoluted debates underlying the foundations of the social sciences and humanities more accessible to the uninitiated and is aimed at both academics specialising in the area and readers eager to broaden their horizons.
Contents
Contents: Michał Dąbrowski: The language of the social world at a border crossing - Antoni Górny: Thank you for talking to me, Africa: Multiculturalism and black urban America - Izabela Handzlik: Muslim communities in the United States: A multicultural puzzle - Anja van Heelsum: Moroccan associations in the Netherlands: how organization leaders deal with the stigmatisation of the Moroccan community - Zuzanna Jakubowska: The Spanish expedition to Easter Island, 1770: Original documents and their rendition by Bolton Glanvill Corney - Anna Jawor: Is a rainbow society possible? Sociological challenges in the age of postmodern multiculturalism - Dolores Morondo Taramundi: Is multiculturalism bad for women, still? Persisting dilemmas in cultural and religious accommodation in Europe - Emma Oki: On being Asian: East-Asian Americans and Canadians in selected North American multicultural graphic novels - Natalia Pastewska-Sorokowska: African rhythm, Cuban soul: The musical heritage of slavery in Cuba - Eduardo J. Ruiz-Vieytez: Definitional trends in the legal management of national and religious minorities (diversity) - Łukasz Sorokowski: Between nationhood and statehood, unionism and nationalism: Scotland's identity politics in the devolution discourse since the 1950s - Aleksandra Wycisk: Controversies over Polish city marketing strategies.
