ABSTRACT
Revolts have occurred. Some, such as the riots in Watts in the 1960s and in South Central Los Angeles in the 1990s, have been violent and dangerous. The Black Power Movement was one clear expression of such a revolt. Its more recent incarnation, expressed in such singular activities as the Million Man March on Washington a decade ago and the much broader campaign to challenge “Eurocentric hegemony,” a central theme of the new multiculturalism, are two others. Multiculturalism came to be used by some and seen by many as a term to describe resistance to traditional views and to offer an alternative. Many want multiculturalism to be the instrument of the education and enlightenment of those others who are ignorant of their ways or those of their people, a way of opening the minds of those who have been too narrowly grounded in a single tradition (Western civilization) and “need liberation from their provincialism.”
