Title: Rooting multiculturalism
Description: The author examines the life and work of Slovenian-born Louis Adamic (1898-1951), a writer, editor, populist historian, and champion of immigrant contributions to the U.S. Coverage includes a chronological description of Adamic's life, from childhood in Slovenia to his death in 1951; Adamic and the emergence of cultural pluralism between the 1910s to 1940s; his rhetoric of social reform; his writing about second-generation immigrants; and his relevance to contemporary multiculturalism.
Subjects: Biography, Ethnic relations, Historians, History, Immigrants, Pluralism (Social sciences), Political and social views, Slovenian Americans, Social conditions, Social reformers, Cultural pluralism, Immigrants, united states, Slovenes
Places: United States
People: Louis Adamic (1899-1951)
Time periods: 20th century