This book focuses on prevailing ideas connected to cultural and social diversity.The writers of these essays deploy a variety of critical methods, which originate from social, cultural and literary theory, and analyze the relationship between historical and social forces and recurrent cultural beliefs and values. Contributors: Marino Tuzi, William Anselmi, Eva C. Karpinski, Osvaldo Croci, Robin Mathews, and Howard A. Doughty.

Howard A. Doughty has written extensively on areas dealing with politics, social, and cultural studies, with particular interests in mass communication and freedom of speech. Together with Marino Tuzi, he edited Discourse and Community (Guernica, 2007).

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Born in 1952, Marino Tuzi lives and teaches in Toronto. He is the author of The Power Of Allegiances: Identity, Culture, and Representational Strategies. As well, along with Howard Doughty, he served as editor for Discourse and Community: Multidisciplinary Studies of Canadian Culture and Culture and Difference: Essays on Canadian Society.

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