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Multiculturalism in Canada and the US – a Course

13 May 2018 by Krzysztof Skowroński Leave a Comment

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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