| Abstrakt: |
This paper redresses common misconceptions concerning the origins of Australian multiculturalism by returning to the thought of Jerzy ‘George’ Zubrzycki (1920–2009). Zubrzycki shared many concerns with multiculturalism's conservative critics and articulated responses to such concerns in his policy writing and in his later academic criticisms of the way multiculturalism became increasingly misconstrued even by multiculturalists. In Zubrzycki's work, we have a theoretical framework capable of dealing with the most difficult issues surrounding the management of the undemocratic, often chauvinistic, exclusivist core identities within broader meta-level considerations of integration, cohesion and acceptance. The intellectual background section gives an explication of the central intellectual features underpinning Zubrzycki's thought. The integrative multiculturalism section then looks at Zubrzycki's original conception of multiculturalism arguing that his work can be seen to provide the framework for a new multiculturalism, one informed by his original intentions, but updated to account for contemporary empirical factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
