Multiculturalism and Its Masks: The Art of Identity Politics

Abstract

SINCE THE MID-1980S, there have been intense debates on the condition of culture both in and out of the academy. Initially formulated as the positing of an expanded canon, these debates have evolved into the codification of alternative canons, the categorization of culture symbolized by connotations such as interculturalism, multiculturalism, and political correctness. The recent debates over the National Endowment for