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October 13 - October 19, 2000
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Educating the New America
By Neela Banerjee With the impending U.S. Census report expected to reveal America’s changing demographics, the multicultural reality faces us more clearly than ever before. Dr. Ronald Takaki, professor of ethnic studies at U.C. Berkeley and author of six books, has been working for 30 years to promote a greater understanding of the differences that create diversity. In his Pulitzer Prize nominated book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Little Brown and Company, 1993), Takaki compared the histories of non-white Americans and asked what it really means to be American. Here, he speaks about the state of ethnic studies in America today and in the future. |
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