多文化主義の起源、現状、将来的課題を、世界各地の事例を取り上げて考察する論文集成。Volume I ('Multiculturalisms Past and Present: From Roots to Rights') assembles key research to trace the concept of multiculturalism, Volume II ('Multiculturalism and the Nation State: Policies and Identity Politics') collects the most important thinking to explore the tensions between national, ethnic, and religious identity politics, Volume III ('Updating Multiculturalism: Many-cultures-ism or Cultural Multi-ism?') examines the difficult choices to be made between ideas of social integration and contending notions of community rights, Volume IV ('After Multiculturalism? Diasporics, Demagogues, and Globalization') juxtaposes work dealing with the most urgent crises in multiculturalism with the best classic and contemporary thinking on the new realities of transnationalism.