After multiculturalism : the politics of race and the dialectics of liberty / John F. Welsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welsh, John F., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

United States.

Cultural pluralism--United States.

Cultural pluralism.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

ix, 211 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2008]

Summary:

After Multiculturalism: The Politics of Race and the Dialectics of Liberty provides a unique critique of multiculturalist thought in social theory and public policy from an individualist perspective. Contemporary discourse on race and racism in the United States is dominated by collectivist social theories that are founded on the idea that the only meaningful challenges to racism are those that foster collective social identities and seek to influence and direct the use of state power in the interest of particular racial and ethnic groups.

After Multiculturalism challenges the notion that collectivist and statist ideologies "own" racism as an educational and public policy issue.

Contents:

Multicultural thought : reactionary tribalism versus the dialectics of liberty

Against the predatory state and the mystique of race : the objectivist vision of Ayn Rand

Fusion and transcendence : Murray Rothbard and the anarcho-capitalist critique of racism

The old racism and the new : the libertarian analysis and critique of state intervention in society

Our enemies, racism and the state : individualist anarchism and the struggle against slavery and racial violence

Self-ownership, the unique individual, and the specter of race : the dialectical egoism of Max Stirner

After multiculturalism : the logic of diversity and the dialectics of liberty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.

ISBN:

9780739118825

073911882X

9780739118832

0739118838

OCLC:

162507369