dr K. Skowroński’s Course of Multiculturalism in Canada and the US for the Opole University students of English Philology and Erasmus plus international students, 2018 summer semester (30 hours, 30 students enrolled)
Basic Sources:
„Canadian Multiculturalism” (Library of Parliament of Canada)
„Multiculturalism” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
„The Politics of Recognition” by Charles Taylor (Canadian philosopher)
“On Ethnocentrism” by Richard Rorty (American philosopher)
Basic Topics:
Idea of Multiculturalism
Canada’s social mosaic model
US’s social models: WASP, the Melting Pot, Post 9/11, Trump Era
American (US) Exceptionalism
Controversies over the Sharia Law in Ontario
The status of the Amish in the US
Hispanics/Lations in the US
The ideas of ‘recognition,’ ‘mis-recognition,’ and ‘non-recognition’
The idea of ‘ethnocentrism’
Is Canada’s multiculturalism a good model for Europe?
others
Additional reading (not obligatory)
K. P. Skowroński, Santayana and America: Values, Liberties, Responsibility. Cambridge Scholars 2007
K.P Skowroński, “Santayana as an Hispanic-American Philosopher. The National, International, and Transnational Perspective.” In: The Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, vol. 2, No 2, (2011) pp. 37-49
K. P. Skowroński, “Americanization of Polish Culture of Cooking, Eating, and Drinking.” (in Polish) In: Stromata Anthropologica. 2 (2007), 361-381
K. P. Skowroński (with C. Padrón, eds.), The Life of Reason in the Age of Terrorism. Brill, 2018
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