Cultural amalgamation

Cultural amalgamation refers to the process of mixing cultures, and as such has been described as a more balanced type of cultural interaction then the process of cultural assimilation .[1] It describes a blending of cultures, rather than one group eliminating another (acculturation) or one group mixing itself into another (assimilation).[2]

Cultural amalgamation has also been described as equivalent to, or at least very similar to the melting pot theory.[3][4]

The term is often used in studies on post–civil rights era United States and contemporary multiculturalism and multiracialism.[5]

See also

References
  1. Ian Keen; Takako Yamada (2001). Identity and Gender in Hunting and Gathering Societies: Papers Presented at the Eighth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 8), National Museum of Ethnology, October 1998. National Museum of Ethnology. p. 167.
  2. "Definition of AMALGAMATION". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  3. Nelson E. Copeland (1995). The Heroic Revolution: A New Agenda for Urban Youthwork. J.C. Winston. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-55523-620-5.
  4. Mark Ryan (2 September 2020). The Enduring Legacy: Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools. University of Michigan Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-472-05468-8.
  5. author., Sexton, Jared Yates (2008). Amalgamation schemes : antiblackness and the critique of multiracialism. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5663-9. OCLC 318220788.


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