Multiculturalism

Feminism and Multiculturalism (Boston Review)
http://new.bostonreview.net/BR22.5/toc.html
The October/November 1997 issue of the Boston Review included a debate on ‘Feminism and Multiculturalism’, initiated by Susan Okin’s well-known article, ‘Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?’, and including replies from Will Kymlicka, Bhikhu Parekh, Joseph Raz, and others.

Making Multicultural Australia
www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/
Perhaps of interest to those who want to consider the role of education in promoting cultural understanding, this website contains resources for use by teachers in classes about Australia's multicultural history and contemporary cultural diversity.

MIRIS: Minority Rights Information System
www.eurac.edu/miris
A large, searchable database, including the histories and demographics of minority groups around the world, and the text of legislation, treaties, and resolutions on minority rights.

Muhammad Cartoons Row 2006 (The Guardian)
www.guardian.co.uk/world/muhammad-cartoons
An archive on The Guardian newspaper’s website of stories relating to the controversy over a Danish newspaper’s publication of a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2006.

Multiculturalism Bites
www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/multiculturalism-bites
A series of podcasts with political theorists, including Chandran Kukathas, Martha Nussbaum, and David Miller, on aspects of the multiculturalism debate.

Philosophy Bites
philosophybites.com/2008/06/will-kymlicka-o.html
philosophybites.com/2007/07/anne-phillips-o.html
Some further podcasts, in which political theorists Will Kymlicka and Anne Phillips discuss multiculturalism.

The Runnymede Trust
www.runnymedetrust.org/
A UK think tank on multiculturalism and race equality.

The Samosa
www.thesamosa.co.uk/
A political website and blog covering multicultural issues in Britain and abroad, with a particular focus on the Pakistani community.

Forum for Philosophy
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/is-multiculturalism-dead/
Three prominent academics discuss whether multiculturalism is dead.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-group/
Entries on multiculturalism and group rights.

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
www.ohchr.org/en/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/SRCulturalRightsIndex.aspx
Website on the work of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights⁠—a post first established in 2009.

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