Title:	Multicultural Statesrethinking Difference and identity
Authors:	Bennett, David
Keywords:	Multiculturalism
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	British Library
Description:	‘Multiculturalism’ is fast following ‘postmodernism’ from the isolation ward of scare quotes into the graveyard of unusable, because overused, jargon. But if the word no longer emits an audible buzz in many of the circles in which it confidently moved and mixed a decade ago, the crises of cultural identity and authority, national self-confidence and democratic conscience, to which its promiscuous uses attested, show no signs of resolution. Indeed, as many of the policies instituted in its name since the 1970s – anti-discrimination and immigration legislation, ‘affirmative-action’ programmes in employment, education and cultural funding, policies of ethnic ‘reconciliation’ and indigenous ‘restitution’ – are now being reconsidered in the face of disillusion and ‘compassion fatigue’ across the political spectrum, the issues of social justice and cultural ‘survival’ debated under the rubric of ‘multiculturalism’ have taken on fresh political urgency
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/59799
ISBN:	0-203-17387-2
Appears in Collections:	Education Planning & Management(EDPM)

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