Multiculturalism a civic idea
Tariq Modood
- 2nd ed.
- Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
- xi, 243 p.
Acknowledgements viii Second Edition Acknowledgements x 1 Is Multiculturalism Appropriate for the Twenty-first Century? 1 2 A Liberal s Bias 20 3 Difference, Multi and Equality 34 4 Liberal Citizenship and Secularism 58 5 Multiculturalism and Essentialism 80 6 Multicultural Citizenship 108 7 The Strange Non-Death of Multiculturalism 144 8 Multiculturalism and the Crisis of Secularism 168 Notes 188 References 204 Index 230
At a time when many public commentators are turning against multiculturalism in response to fears about militant Islam, immigration or social cohesion, Tariq Modood, one of the world's leading authorities on multiculturalism, provides a distinctive contribution to these debates.