The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History - Softcover

Chin, Rita

 
9780691192772: The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691192774 ISBN 13: 9780691192772
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2019

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A history of modern European cultural pluralism, its current crisis, and its uncertain future

In 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries. Over the past decade, a growing consensus in Europe has voiced similar decrees. But what do these ominous proclamations, from across the political spectrum, mean? Looking at the touchstones of European multiculturalism, from the urgent need for laborers after World War II to the question of French girls wearing headscarves to school, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe examines the historical development of multiculturalism on the Continent. Rita Chin argues that there were few efforts to institute state-sponsored policies of multiculturalism, and shows that today’s crisis of support for cultural pluralism isn’t new but actually has its roots in the 1980s. Contending that renouncing the principles of diversity brings social costs, Chin considers how Europe might construct an effective political engagement with its varied population.

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Rita Chin is professor of history at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany and the coauthor of After the Nazi Racial State. She was recently awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.

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"Rita Chin's indispensable and timely book brilliantly analyzes the ideological obfuscation involved in the claim by Western Europeans, on the right and left, that 'multiculturalism' has failed. Instead, Chin suggests, it was never really tried. Exploring the roots of past racism and its new secularist forms today, Chin casts a sobering and troubling look at the intolerance of difference in Europe."--Samuel Moyn, author of Christian Human Rights

"There are several other books about multiculturalism in modern Europe, but none to my knowledge bring to bear the same level of historical depth and systematic comparative analysis found in Chin's excellent work. This is not only a key text in the history of multiculturalism in contemporary Europe, but it adds a new dimension to the broader history of Europe since 1945. A pleasure to read."--Tyler Stovall, University of California, Santa Cruz

"This book offers much to admire. It provides extensive coverage of a timely, important topic, and the comparative approach is original."--Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691192774
ISBN 13 
9780691192772
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