Volume 44, Number 15 · October 9, 1997
The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
On Toleration
by Michael Walzer
Yale University Press, 126 pp., $16.50
We Are All Multiculturalists Now
by Nathan Glazer
Harvard University Press, 179 pp., $19.95
Have you noticed that 'culture'—the word—has been getting a heavy work-out recently? Anthropologists, of course, have used it zealously for over a century; though the term's active life in literature and politics began long before that. But some current ways in which the concept of culture has been put to use would have surprised even mid-century readers; especially the idea that everything from anorexia to zydeco is illuminated by being displayed as the product of some group's culture. It's got to the point that when you hear the word 'culture,' you reach for your dictionary.
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