Community-based organizations (CBOs) have become important vehicles for articulating a growing ethnic consciousness in the U.S. This essay first examines the reasons behind the development of CBOs in recent decades, and then considers the effectiveness of CBOs as instruments for enhancing cultural pluralism.
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