Cultural minorities
03 Oct 1994 12:00Oppressed. Oppressing. --- I realize that the title of this seems to imply that there must be a cultural majority in some society, which logically of course need not be the case at all. Whether things happen very differently in a society where every cultural group is a minority is an interesting empirical question.
- Recommended:
- Richard T. Ford, Racial Culture: A Critique
- Glenn C. Loury, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
- To read:
- B. Barry, Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism
- Jean-Francois Bayart, The Illusion of Cultural Identity
- Cohen, Global Diasporas
- David A. Hollinger, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism
- Penguin Atlas of Diasporas
- Anne Phillips, Multiculturalism without Culture
- Gabriel Sheffer, Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad