In this collection of essays Americanists from the United States Germany and Latvia enter
the scholarly debate about the ever increasing pluralization of societies on the North American
continent by correlating the issues of multiculturalism and ethnic survival. Spanning six
centuries and covering the cultural work and literary representation of eight ethnic groups in
the USA and Canada the essays demonstrate that the scope of the debate has to be widened to
reflect the complexity of a subject which has too long been reduced to convenient but
simplistic binaries.
