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  title info:
    title: From melting pot to witch's cauldron
    sub title: how multiculturalism failed America
  name:
    name part: Caravantes, Ernesto.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 119 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: Ernesto Caravantes.
  subject:
    topic: Multiculturalism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Ethnicity
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Cultural pluralism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Ethnic relations
  classification: HM1271 .C372 2010
  identifier: 9780761850564 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0761850562 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2009943095
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 100220
    record change date: 20151201152256.0
    record identifier: in00002575260
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng