THE TAMING OF AMERICAN MULTICULTURALISM: FROM BALKANIZATION TO EMPIRE
THE TAMING OF AMERICAN MULTICULTURALISM: FROM BALKANIZATION TO EMPIRE
Author(s): Rodica MihăilăSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: American multiculturalism; balkanization of America critical multiculturalism; cultural pluralism; neoliberalism
Summary/Abstract: The concept of multiculturalism has undergone important changes under the combined effects of such domestic and international developments as the new world order, globalization, the war against terror and the rise of neo-conservatism. In its attempt to answer the question “What happened to multiculturalism?” the paper addresses the shift from the radicalism of critical multiculturalism blamed for the “balkanization” of America to the neo-liberalism’s absorption of multiculturalism and its repackaging as an US model of identity for the 21st century world, and still further, to the taming of multiculturalism and its assimilation by cultural pluralism pointing to what Hardt and Negri describe as the “empire” of the globalization age.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 155-162
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
