Toppling the Melting Pot: Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism

by José-Antonio Orosco

Book Overview

The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth century. Jos?-Antonio Orosco examines the work of several pragmatist social thinkers, including John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Josiah Royce, and Jane Addams, regarding the challenges large-scale immigration brings to American democracy. Orosco argues that the ideas of the classical pragmatists can help us understand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025302305X
• ISBN13: 9780253023056
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"