Table of Contents

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Multicultural Societies and Globalization.

1. Ethnic Theory in a Global Age.

2. The United States as a Melting Pot: Myth and Reality.

3. Canada and Australia: Ethnic Mosaics and State-Sponsored Multiculturalism.

4. John Bull's Island: Britain in a Post-Colonial World.

5. Germany, France, and Shifting Conceptions of Citizenship.

6. Multicultural Prospects and Twenty-first Century Realities.

References.

About the Author

Peter Kivisto is Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and Professor and Chair of Sociology at Augustana College. He is the author of Immigrant Socialists in the United States (1984), For Democracy (1993), and Americans All (1995), and is the editor of The Ethnic Enigma (1989) and Multiculturalism in the United States (2000).

Reviews

“Peter Kivisto has produced a characteristically insightful and incisive theoretical analysis of multiculturalism today. Genuinely comparative, this is cutting-edge work of high quality.” Martin Bulmer, Editor, Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Kivisto provides a concise and useful theoretical discussion of ethnic theories." E. Hu-DeHart, Brown University