The Promise of Multiculturalism: Education and Autonomy in the 21st Century

by George Katsiaficas (Editor), Teodros Kiros (Editor)

In the ongoing culture wars, multiculturalism represents a threat to traditional values for some, and a promise for a more inclusive society for others. This collection demonstrates multiculturalism's potential to transform human society and teach it to respect - rather than reject or merely tolerate - difference. It offers diverse approaches to multiculturalism as it applies to contemporary themes of autonomy, identity and education. Drawing on philosophy, literature, sociology, history and political science, the contributors weave together personal narratives, pedagogical interpretations and global perspectives to offer a vision of the 21st century.

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 1998

About the author

George Katsiaficas is currently living in Gwangju, South Korea.
A visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University, he is finishing research on East Asian uprisings in the 1980s and 1990s.

A Fulbright Fellow, student of Herbert Marcuse, and long-time activist, he is the author of The Imagination of the
New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. His book, The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, was co-winner of the APSA's 1998 Michael Harrington book award. Among his edited volumes are Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party (with Kathleen Cleaver) and Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War. He wrote Introduction to Critical Sociology with R.G. Kirkpatrick.