From melting pot to witch's cauldron [[electronic resource] ] : how multiculturalism failed America / / Ernesto Caravantes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457092703321
• Autore: Caravantes Ernesto
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Md., : Hamilton Books, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-71349-3; 9786612713491; 0-7618-5057-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (131 p.)
• Disciplina: 300; 658.422
• Soggetti: Multiculturalism - United States; Electronic books.; United States History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: From Melting Pot to Witch's Cauldron; Contents; Preface; Part One; Introduction; Chapter One: Plymouth Rock; Chapter Two: The Enlightenment; Chapter Three: The African Slaves in America; Chapter Four: The Scandinavian and Irish Migration; Chapter Five: The Mexican Border Is Re-Established; Chapter Six: The Arrival of the Jews; Chapter Seven: The 1960's Mentality: Started with Two Bullets; Chapter Eight: The Effects of the Civil Rights Movement; Chapter Nine: Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez Would Be Ashamed; Chapter Ten: The Formation of the Ghetto and the Barrio; Chapter Eleven: Multiculturalism in League with Identity Politics Chapter Twelve: Multiculturalism in League with Political Correctness; Part Two; Chapter Thirteen: Let Us Define 'Culture'; Chapter Fourteen: Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?; Chapter Fifteen: What 'Failure' Implies; Chapter Sixteen: Why the Experiment Failed; Chapter Seventeen: The Role of Parents; Chapter Eighteen: The Role of the Universities; Chapter Nineteen: The Role of the Media; Chapter Twenty: Undoing the Damage; Chapter Twenty-One: The 21st Century American; Chapter Twenty-Two: Marching Forward and Closing Thoughts; Epilogue
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explains that the original wishes of the founders of the American Republic, as well as those of modern luminaries like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, have not been realized. Caravantes traces this problem to the radical activism of the 1960's, which introduced the notion of multiculturalism.