Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies
Edited by
Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago
Martha Minow, Harvard University
Hazel R. Markus, Stanford University
As democracies expand to include peoples of vastly different cultural backgrounds, the limits of tolerance are being tested as never before. Using illuminating case studies, this book explores the notion that tolerance ought to be the beginning of our efforts, not the end, since mere tolerance will not improve understanding across groups, nor foster shared access to key social institutions. Engaging Cultural Differences provides a compelling examination of the challenges of multiculturalism and reveals a deep understanding of the challenges democracies face as they seek to accommodate their citizens' diverse beliefs and practices.
Contents
Introduction: Engaging Cultural Differences
Section 1: One Nation, Many Cultures with Liberty and Justice for All: Contested Practices and Group Status in Liberal Democracies
Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Assimilation but Were Afraid to Ask
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Living with Multi-Culturalism in India: Universalism and Particularism in Historical Context Katherine Pratt Ewing Legislating Religious Freedom: Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between "Church" and "State" in Germany and France
David Chambers Civilizing the Natives: Marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Jane Maslow Cohen and Caroline Bledsoe Immigrants, Agency and Allegiance: Some Notes from Anthropology and from Law
Unni Wikan Citizenship on Trial: Nadia's Case
Section 2: Cultural Accommodation and Its Limits
Arthur N. Eisenberg Accommodation and Coherence: In Search of a Unified Theory for Adjudicating Claims of Faith, Culture and Conscience
Lawrence G. Sager The Free Exercise of Culture: Some Doubts and Distinctions
Nomi Stolzenberg The Culture of Property
Alison Dundes Renteln In Defense of Culture in the Courtroom
Richard A. Shweder What about "Female Genital Mutilation?": And Why Understanding Culture Matters in the First Place
Martha Minow About Women, about Culture: About Them, about Us
Section 3: The Universal Human Rights Debate: Mobilization and Resistance
Maivan Clech Lam Between Nationalism and Feminism: Indigenous Women, Community and State
Usha Menon Neither Victim nor Rebel: Feminism and the Morality of Gender and Family Life in a Hindu Temple Town
Corinne A. Kratz Circumcision Debates and Asylum Cases: Intersecting Arenas, Contested Values, and Tangled Webs
Karen Engle From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to 1999
Section 4: Conceptions of Difference and the Differences They Make
Victoria Plaut Cultural Models of Diversity in America: The Psychology of Difference and Inclusion
Austin Sarat The Micropolitics of Identity/Difference: Recognition, Accommodation and Resistance in Everyday Life
Joanna Davidson 'Plural' Society and Inter-ethnic Relations in Guinea-Bissau
Heejung S. Kim and Hazel R. Markus Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Silence: An Analysis of Talking as a Cultural Practice
Hazel R. Markus, Claude M. Steele and Dorothy M. Steele Colorblindness as a Barrier to Inclusion: Assimilation and Non-Immigrant Minorities
Social Science Research Council
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