Postethnic America Beyond Multiculturalism [Paperback]

First published in 1995,Postethnic Americawas widely hailed as a groundbreaking proposal for healing our nation's ethnic divisions. David A. Hollinger, one of America's foremost intellectual historians, argues for replacing the pluralist model of multiculturalism that is based on the idea of group rights with a cosmopolitan model that recognizes the reality of shifting group boundaries and multiple identities.Postethnic Americais a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise, and a stirring call for a new form of nationalism. In this tenth-anniversary edition, Hollinger has added a new postscript in which he responds to his critics and addresses the contemporary conversation about race, ethnicity, inequality, and nationalism in America.

David A. Hollingeris professor of history at the University of California at Berkely. His other books includeScience, Jews, and Secular CultureandIn the American Province.