The authors make a plea for multicultural education at all levels of education in the United States but particularly at the level of higher education. For them, earlier conceptions of multiculturalism have not worked, be they assimilation, transitional multiculturalism #opanother term to designate the melting pot#cp, and finally, what the authors call residual multiculturalism or what might also be called tokenism or the attempt to be overly all‐inclusive in terms of emphasis of the particular. The authors propose a variety of multiculturalism that while emphasizing the core values of cultures serves as a unifying factor in a culture of difference. The latter must be incorporated into curricula, but not in a particularistic fashion; rather, “the myriad groups must be interwoven into the very fabric of the university experience”.