Multiculturalism in Western Europe and North America

Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Science, Charles University

Reading list:

  1. Johnson, Allan (1996) Human arrangements, An Introduction to Sociology, 4th edition, Brown &Benchmark, pp. 287-315
  2. Jenkins, Pamela one page on three sociological perspectives
  3. Marshall, Gordon (ed.), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, entry on race and ethnicity
  4. Cashmore, Ellis (1996) Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, London: Routledge, entries on race, race relations, racism, sociobiology
  5. Průcha, Jan: Moderní pedagogika – The Bell Curve; Steven Gold: Jak neměřit člověka – sample of IQ testing
  6. Hutchinson, John, Smith Anthony, ed. (1996) Ethnicity, Oxford- New York: Oxford University Press: Contents and introduction;
  7. 4 Eriksen: Ethnicity, Race, Class and Nation
  8. 9 Van den Berghe: Does race matter?
  9. 16 Banton: The actors Model of Ethnic Relations
  10. 22 Glazer, Moynihan: Beyond Meling Pot
  11. 28 Civic and ethnic nations in France and Germany
  12. 39 Rex: Multiculturalism in Europe
  13. 55 Smooha, Hanf: Conflict regulation in deeply divided societies
  14. 62 Hutchinson: Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Immigrant Societies
  15. 58 Breton: From Ethnic to Civic Nationalism – Canada
  16. About the Canadian Multiculturalsim Act
  17. Richmond, Anthony (1994) Global Apartheid, Toronto: Oxford University Press (pp.1-45) on power, conflict, identity (good description of race and ethnicity)
  18. Malik, Kenan (1996) The Meaning of Race, Macmillan: Introduction
  19. The meaning of Multicilturalism
  20. The West and its Others´
  21. Cultural Wars
  22. Cornell, Stephen, Hartmann, Douglas (1998) Ethnicity and Race. Making Identities in a Changing World, Pine Forge Press/A Sage Publication Company
  23. Bagilhole, Barbara (1997), ) Equal Opportunities and Social Policy: Issues of gender, race and disability Longman: Chapter two: What is Equal Opportunities?
  24. Thompson, Neil (1993) Anti-discriminatotry Practice, MacMillan, Chapter 1: The Theory Base
  25. Parrilo, Vincent (1997) Strangers to These Shores. Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States. Boston - London: Allyn and Bacon : Theories of minority integration pp. 54-61
  26. Prejudice and Discrimination
  27. Dominant minority Relations
  28. Travellers in Ireland: An examination of Discrimination and Racism (very good basic description of discrimination and racism)

29.Kinchloe: Changing Multiculturalism – Foreword (overview of various concepts of multiculturalism)

  1. Kymlicka: Multicultural Citizenship (1995): Chapter 2: The politics of Multiculturalism
  2. Chapter 6: Justice and Minority Rights
  3. Bhikhu Parekh: Changing Multiculturalism (2000): Chapter 7: The Political Structure of Multicultural Society

33.The Policy and Legislative Framework for Multiculturalism in Canada

  1. Wallerstein, Immanuel: The Racist Albatros (in Czech, Sociologický časopis, XXXVI, (4/2000)
  2. book reviews (Multiculturalism of Fear, etc)

Documents and other readings:

CoE Framework Convention on protection of national minorities; OSCE HCNM: Lund, Oslo and Hague Recommendations

UN Factsheet No 18 on national minorities; UN Factsheet No 12 on CERD (Committee on elimination of racial discrimination)

UN ICERD (Intl convention on elimination of racial discrimination);

MRG Reports: Roma/Gypsies, Refugees in Europe, Educational Rights, Protection of minorities, etc