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.

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. Marino Tuzi published The Power of Allegiances in 1997 (Guernica). Together they edited Discourse and Community (Guernica, 2007).