American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime: The Challenge to Liberal Pluralism

Thomas F. Powers

ISBN 10: 1587310457 / ISBN 13: 9781587310454

Published by St Augustine's Press, 2023

&Uumlber den AutorThomas Powers is Full Professor of Political Science at Carthage College, where he teaches constitutional law. He received his bachelor s degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from the University of Toron. Seller Inventory # 800625936

Synopsis:

Wokeness, cancel culture, identity politics, political correctness, multiculturalism―terms unsettling but also somehow inescapable. Thomas F. Powers shows how these are all one thing, elements of one broad political phenomenon―the anti-discrimination regime―–that has since 1964 been working to challenge and undermine America’s defining liberal democratic tradition (the tradition of the Declaration and the Constitution). The many deep lines of tension between the old and the new, presented here with arresting clarity, allow us to grasp the new order in its distinctiveness. Novel imperatives to regulate private life (behavior, speech, thought) begin to come to sight in the new order’s many laws and institutions. Attentive to the crucial role of law, the main focus of this book is nevertheless on the ideas, especially the moral ideals, thrust upon us by the new regime. This study examines theorists of multicultural education (non-postmodernist and postmodernist) who, without hesitation, set forth a new civic education and a new form of democratic pluralism for America. When a country has a new civic education, a new pluralism, and a new morality, these are signs of fundamental change not to be ignored. The book culminates in a direct critical examination of the new logic of group politics and the new morality of the anti-discrimination regime. In embarking on this new chapter of democratic life, do we know what we are doing?

About the Author: Thomas Powers is Full Professor of Political Science at Carthage College, where he teaches constitutional law. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has written on anti-discrimination politics, multicultural education, religious freedom, and liberty and security in the post-9/11 era.

Bibliographic Details

Title: American Multiculturalism and the ...
Publisher: St Augustine's Press
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New