Events
Open Minds Book Club: Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World's Past and America's Future
Date and Time
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Location
Meijer Regency Room
Richard M. DeVos Center
401 West Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI
49504-6431
Description
NOTE: For the 2024-25 academic year, the Hauenstein Center will be sponsoring free copies of Open Minds Book Club books for currently enrolled GVSU students only.
Thank you for your interest in participating in the Open Minds Book Club!
For the January 2025 session of Open Minds, we will be reading and discussing Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World's Past and America's Future by Jens Kurt Heycke.
As it absorbs record numbers of new immigrants, the U.S. faces critical questions: is it better to promote a unifying, shared identity that transcends ethnic differences or to foster a multicultural salad of distinct group identities? Is it better to minimize ethnic distinctions or to accentuate them with diversity initiatives and ethnic preferences? Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire takes a global, historical perspective to address these questions, examining how societies, from ancient Rome to modern Rwanda, have dealt with them. It provides essential analysis and data for America and other countries that are contemplating an increasingly multiethnic future.
The discussion for this book will be held on Wednesday, January 22, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Richard M. DeVos Center’s Meijer Regency Room located on the GVSU Pew Campus.
GVSU students interested in a free copy of the book must register by January 1.
See the full Open Minds Book Club schedule here!
This event has been tagged as grandforum, and talkingtogether.
Contact
If you have any questions, please email Kahler Sweeney.