The Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in America (Literature; 71)
How popular are D'Souza, Bennett, Brimelow, Sowell, and company among your library's patrons? Iftheirbooks fly off the shelf, this Red-baiting attack on multiculturalism by an Illinois College sociology professor will have appeal. Schmidt distinguishes between multicultural education, of which he approves, and multiculturalism, defined as a neo-Marxist ideology based in cultural relativism.Menaceopens with hyperbolic rhetoric ("If multiculturalism continues to infiltrate America's basic institutions with its potentially divisive ideology, neo-pagan principles, and multi-morality, it [the U.S.?] will surely lose its soul . . . "), then traces multiculturalism's sins: "Marxist" concepts, cultural relativism, "omissions, distortions, and noble lies," diversity, political correctness, and its "threat to the family" and "the Judeo-Christian/Western tradition." A brief but highly laudatory foreword by D'Souza declares that "this time the Trojan horse will be recognized, the looters will be turned back at the gates, and the city on the hill will be preserved from destruction." See "Culture Wars in the U.S." (p.1000) for additional books on the subject.Mary Carroll