Ethnic studies as multi-discipline and phenomenology

Stanford M. Lyman

Lester Embree

pp. 211-249

in: Mano Daniel, Lester Embree (eds), Phenomenology of the cultural disciplines, Berlin, Springer, 1994

Abstract

Ethnic Studies is a type of academic program that includes a multiplicity of cultural disciplines (education, ethnology, history, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, etc.). The history of the integrationist (or assimilationist) and the pluralist (or multi-cultural) conceptions of race and ethnic relations chiefly in the United States is examined first and then the attempt is made to show how research within and philosophical reflection upon this multi-discipline can be phenomenological.