Theorizing Multiculturalism

The editor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. She teaches courses in ethics, social theory, and contemporary Continental philosophy. Her previous publications include articles in Cultural Critique, Philosophy and Literature, and Research in Phenomenology. She has also published a book, Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (1995).

List of Contributors. Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
I Post-Hegelian Dialectics of Recognition and Communication.
From Redistribution to Recogntion? Dilemmas of Justice in a "Post-Socialist" Age (Nancy Fraser).
Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser's Dual Systems Theory (Iris Marion Young).
A Rejoinder to Iris Young (Nancy Fraser).
Recognition, Value, and Equality: A Critique of Charles Taylor's and Nancy Fraser's Accounts of Multiculturalism (Lawrence Blum).
Ludic, Corporate, and Imperial Multiculturalism of the New World Order (Martin J. Beck Matustik).
II Post-Marxism and Issues of Class.
Multiculturalism: Consumerist or Transformational? (Bill Martin).
Post-Marxist Political Economy and the Culture of the Left (Donald C. Hodges).
III Continental and Analytical Feminism.
Identity, Difference, and Abjection (Kelly Oliver).
Psychological Explanations of Oppression (Ann E. Cudd).
IV Corporeal Logic and Sexuate Being.
Toward the Domain of Freedom: Interview with Drucilla Cornell by Penny Florence (Drucilla Cornell).
Morphing the Body: Irigaray and Butler on Sexual Difference (Tamsin Lorraine).
V Critical Race Theory.
Alienation and the African-American Experience (Howard McGary).
"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again": Interculturalism and Conversation of Races (Robert Bernasconi).
VI Postcolonialism and Ethnicity.
Fanon and the Subject of Experience (Ronald A. T. Judy).
White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of US Higher Education (Ward Churchill).
VII Liberalism.
Moral Deference (Laurence M. Thomas).
"Multiculturalism," Citizenship, Education, and American Liberal Democracy (Lucius Outlaw, Jr.).
VIII Pragmatism.
Ceremony and Rationality in the Haudenosaunee Tradition (Scott L. Pratt).
Educational Multiculturalism, Critical Pluralism, and Deep Democracy (Judith M. Green).
Universal Human Liberation: Community and Multiculturalism (Leonard Harris).
Index

Brings together the theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives. By challenging the impasses of the postmodern critique, this book serves to explore the possibility of a grounding work in multiculturalism and diversity without resorting to the foundationalism of traditional philosophy.