ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how multiculturalism and other historical treatments of ethnic diversity are visually expressed in the United States, Europe and China will be showed and discussed. According to Roseman, Laux, and Thieme, EthniCities have emerged as a consequence of the political and economic restructuring that has increased and diversified labour and capital mobility. In the American paradigm of ethnic diversity there have been three major themes: Assimilationism, Cultural Pluralism and Multiculturalism. Cultural Pluralism recognizes the positive value of diversity for democratic societies but only in tandem with overarching common values that connect the disparate groups. Douglas Harper, commenting on Howard S. Becker, John Grady and other seminal pieces in the establishment of the field of Visual Sociology, extends the vision of visual sociology taking into account post-modern and other critiques but at base he argues that visual sociology should begin with traditional assumptions of sociological field work and sociological analysis.
