Diversity and Distrust : Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy / Stephen Macedo.

Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Place of Diversity
1. Diversity Ascendant
I Public Schooling and American Citizenship
Introduction
2. Civic Anxieties
3. Civic Excess and Reaction
4. The Decline of the Common School Idea
5. Civic Ends: The Dangers of Civic Totalism
II Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism
6. Multiculturalism and the Religious Right
7. Diversity and the Problem of Justification
8. The Mirage of Perfect Fairness
9. Divided Selves and Transformative Liberalism
III School Reform and Civic Education
10. Civic Purposes and Public Schools
11. The Case for Civically Minded School Reform
Conclusion: Public Reasons, Private Transformations
Notes
Index