From Melting Pot to Witch's Cauldron

How Multiculturalism Failed America

By (author) Ernesto Caravantes

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Publication date:

27 April 2010

Length of book:

146 pages

Publisher

Hamilton Books

ISBN-13: 9780761850571

From Melting Pot to Witch's Cauldron explores what can happen when good intentions go askew. Ernesto Caravantes points out that the original wishes of the founders of the American Republic, as well as the desires of modern luminaries like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, have not been realized. Caravantes traces this problem to the radical activism of the 1960s, which introduced the notion of multiculturalism. In so doing, that activism completely erased all chances of seeing the dreams of these activists being brought into fruition. The author points out that the true and original aim of the multiculturalism movement was to have people of divergent ethnic backgrounds become unified by their differences, yet what is occurring is just the opposite - xenophobia and ethno-centrism have developed among the different ethnic groups in the United States. This book is a must-read for students of multicultural studies in colleges and universities.

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1. Plymouth Rock
Chapter 5 2. The Enlightenment
Chapter 6 3. The African Slaves in America
Chapter 7 4. The Scandinavian and Irish Migration
Chapter 8 5. The Mexican Border is Re-Established
Chapter 9 6. The Arrival of the Jews
Chapter 10 7. The 1960 Mentality Started with Two Bullets
Chapter 11 8. The Effects of the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 12 9. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez would be Ashamed
Chapter 13 10. The Formation of the Ghetto and the Barrio
Chapter 14 11. Multiculturalism in League with Identity Politics
Chapter 15 12. Multiculturalism in League with Political Correctedness
Part 16 Part II
Chapter 17 13. Let Us Define 'Culture'
Chapter 18 14. Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?
Chapter 19 15. What 'Failure' Implies
Chapter 20 16. Why the Experiment Failed
Chapter 21 17. The Role of Parents
Chapter 22 18. The Role of the Universities
Chapter 23 19. The Role of the Media
Chapter 24 20. Undoing the Damage
Chapter 25 21. The 21st Century American
Chapter 26 22. Marching Forward and Closing Thoughts
Chapter 27 Epilogue

Classrooms will find plenty of food for discussion in this analysis.