The politics of national identity and the pedagogy of multiculturalism in the USA

Global changes have provided the conditions for the emergence of new theoretical discourses that pose a powerful challenge to modern assumptions regarding the unity of nationalism and culture, the state and the nation, and national identity and the imperatives of a common culture. The historic and spatial shifts that have, in part, produced new forms of theorising about globalisation, the politics of diaspora, immigration, identity politics, …