Description: Europe has become a novel experiment in multiple-tiered and mediated multiculturalisms. It is now a supranational community of cultures, sub-cultures, and trans-cultures inserted differentially into radically different political and cultural traditions. The consequences of this re-imagining and re-making of a new Europe are variously seen to be threatening or utopian. In a post-Communist, post-national era, multiculturalism has been theorized as a paternalistic, top-down solution to the "problem" of minorities. The authors of this book reject this view by arguing that multiculturalism is the political outcome of ongoing power struggles and collective negotiations of cultural, ethnic, and racial differences.

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