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

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

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Caravantes, Ernesto.
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 119 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Multiculturalism -- United States. Ethnicity -- United States. Cultural pluralism -- United States. Cultural pluralism. Ethnic relations. Ethnicity. Multiculturalism. United States -- Ethnic relations. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11285255

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9780761850571 0761850570 0761850562 9780761850564 9780761850564
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Caravantes, Ernesto. From melting pot to witch's cauldron. Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books, ©2010 9780761850564

Table of Contents:

Plymouth Rock
The Enlightenment
The African slaves in America
The Scandinavian and Irish migration
The Mexican border is re-established
The arrival of the Jews
The 1960s mentality started with two bullets
The effects of the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez would be ashamed
The formation of the ghetto and the barrio
Multiculturalism in league with identity politics
Multiculturalism in league with political correctness
Let us define "culture"
Whose culture is it, anyway?
What "failure" implies
Why the experiment failed
The role of parents
The role of the universities
The roles of the media
Undoing the damage
The 21st century American
Marching forward and closing thoughts.