Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective

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<P>In <EM>Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective</EM>, a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective.</P><P>Multiculturalism today faces challenges like never before, through the concurrent rise of populism and white supremacist groups, and contemporary social movements mobilizing around alternative ideas of decolonization, anti-racism and national self-determination Taking these challenges head on, and with the backdrop that the term multiculturalism originated in Canada before going global, this collection of chapters presents a global comparative view of multiculturalism, through both empirical and normative perspectives, with the overarching aim of comprehending multiculturalism''s promise, limitations, contemporary challenges, trajectory and possible futures. Collectively, the chapters provide the basis for a critical assessment of multiculturalism''s fir