Being American In A Changing World with Ronald Takaki

MP3 Download "We're all minorities," says Ronald Takaki, multicultural expert and renowned scholar of American history. In this face-paced, provocative dialogue, Takaki takes us back to our nation's founding principles - to the Declaration of Independence and the inalienable rights guaranteed by our Constitution - and implores us to remember that "the Declaration of Independence belongs to all of us as members of humanity." "These principles," says Takaki, "need to guide us as we enter this Twenty-First Century of immense ethnic and racial diversity within the United States - a diversity that's connected to diversity in the world." Throughout this intriguing interview, Takaki draws insightfully from Christian theology and C.S. Lewis' controversial Screwtape Letters, as we reexamine how some of the leading thinkers in our nation's history - Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Truman, MacArthur, Martin Luther King, and others - wrestled with the critical challenges and choices of their