American Multiculturalism And The Anti¿discrimin ¿ The Challenge To Liberal Pluralism Av Thomas F. Powers

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, s