By Dean A. Harris
So-called "multiculturalists" were lately special via newshounds and students arguing that such apologists are the reason for modern cultural fragmentation, racism, neo-segregation, "lowered standards," and a radicalism that ignores the needs of mainstream the United States. This ebook is an creation to a couple of the information underlying the claims multiculturalists make for range, inclusion, and complexity, and is without doubt one of the first rejoinders minorities have awarded to strive against the onslaught. Spanning the philosophical spectrum from distinction to useful intercultural verbal exchange, each one essay represents the precipitate made out of the writer's engagement with scholars, students, the public-at-large, and marginalized peoples. The reader won't locate in those pages a choice for chaos, civil battle, or racism. None of what's right here espoused can responsibly be characterised as unpatriotic or misanthropic. Radical? definite. Subversive? sure. but additionally expansive, sympathetic, demanding, and inspiring. This e-book isn't really for the faint of middle. Readers searching for a tough research that may supply assistance on adjudicating the claims of multiculturalists and monoculturalists will locate it during this booklet.
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On the other hand, once it is admitted that all groups have some things in common and that no group represents a universal or "normal" standard, it becomes more difficult to justify any group's exclusion from political and social life. Social Movements 15 Redefining Difference as Variation The politics Of difference rejects the essentialist definition of difference, which defines it as deviance from a neutral norm and holds that some groups have essentially different natures and aspirations. In the politics of difference, however, group difference is seen as ambiguous and shifting, without clear categories of opposites that narrowly define people.
We object to the classification of pregnancy as a disability. Pregnancy and childbirth are normal conditions of normal, healthy women. They should not be stigmatized as unhealthy or as deviant from male-defined workplace norms of good health and attendance at work. Treating pregnancy and childbirth in this way also suggests that the only reason pregnant women have a right to miss work is the physically inability to do their jobs. This conception of pregnancy fails to recognize that pregnant women have special needs that go beyond being unable to work.
The danger in this approach is that group differences get pushed out of the sphere of public discussion and action and come to be seen as a purely private or non-political matter. When this happens, the problem of oppression of some groups tends to go unaddressed in our public institutions, and patterns of privilege and oppression among groups are reinforced. The politics of difference that we advocate recognizes and takes seriously the public and political importance of group differences, and takes the experiences of oppressed groups as a starting point for reform of our public institutions.
