Out Of The Melting Pot, Into The Fire: Multiculturalism In The World'S Past And America'S Future

The melting pot metaphor has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens throughout most of America's history. Yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated or even racist and advocate replacing it with multiculturalism. This book informs the debate over multiculturalism and the melting pot with an essential international and historical perspective. It evaluates how the melting pot and multicultural models have worked out in other societies around the world over 2,500 years of history: it provides a multicultural look at the melting pot and multiculturalism.

• | Author: Jens Kurt Heycke
• | Publisher: Encounter Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1641773197
• | ISBN-13: 9781641773195