It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptions... empirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, ou...r sanity also depend upon our forgetting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to sup...press contention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »