Cultural Pluralism And The American Idea
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Cultural Pluralism And The American Idea
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Author : Horace Meyer Kallen
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-01-31
Cultural Pluralism And The American Idea written by Horace Meyer Kallen and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with History categories.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Many Voices Many Opportunities
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Author : Clement Alexander Price
language : en
Publisher: Americans for the Arts Books
Release Date : 1994
Many Voices Many Opportunities written by Clement Alexander Price and has been published by Americans for the Arts Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Arts and society categories.
"What is American culture? In Many Voices, Many Opportunities, Clement Alexander Price, Professor of American and Afro-American history at Rutgers University, provides a fresh, historical, fair-minded view of this hotly-argued question. Focusing on arts policy, one of the primary battlegrounds of the multiculturalism controversy, Many Voices, Many Opportunities convinces us that "the swirling debate about the history of American culture and its present character is quite unlike anything in American life since the early years of the civil rights movement."" "Many Voices, Many Opportunities traces the ideas of cultural pluralism back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when such figures as W. E. B. DuBois asserted that American diversity, rather than creating a harmonious "melting pot," actually brought about struggles among ethnic and racial groups for equal recognition in American culture and the arts. Dr. Price argues for a pluralistic approach to culture and for a definition of national culture that is dynamic rather than rigid. He concludes that we need to change our perception of cultural and artistic worth if cultural pluralism is to succeed."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Unmaking Of Americans
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Author : John J. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1998
The Unmaking Of Americans written by John J. Miller and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Acculturation categories.
Immigrants have always adopted America's ideological principles and striven to become "American". But now there is a war against the whole notion of assimilation; newcomers are encouraged to maintain their own separate cultural identity. In the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger's "The Disuniting of America", this commonsense manifesto promotes renewing the assimilation ethic in America.
Culture And Democracy In The United States
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Author : Horace Meyer Kallen
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Culture And Democracy In The United States written by Horace Meyer Kallen and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Political Science categories.
This is a recognized classic in the psychology of the American peoples. It brings together a series of reflections upon the nature of culture and of democracy, upon their bearing to one another in the United States, and upon their underlying dynamics in the social and spiritual endeavors of the many peoples striving toward life, liberty, and happiness amid the varied settings of the American scene. Kallen argues that various decisions made throughout the history of the United States have been determined by prejudice. In his new introduction, Stephen Whitfield delves deeply into Kallen's background, discussing the influences on his life and work. This volume will be a necessary addition to the personal libraries of sociologists, political theorists, philosophers, and ethnic studies scholars.
Multiculturalism And American Democracy
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Author : Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Multiculturalism And American Democracy written by Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cultural pluralism categories.
The fourteen essays in this volume address the pros and cons of multiculturalism and explore its relationship with liberal democracy.
Our America
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Author : Walter Benn Michaels
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1995
Our America written by Walter Benn Michaels and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America offers both a provocative reinterpretation of the role of identity in modernism and a sustained critique of the role of identity in postmodernism. "We have a great desire to be supremely American," Calvin Coolidge wrote in 1924. That desire, Michaels tells us, is at the very heart of American modernism, giving form and substance to a cultural movement that would in turn redefine America's cultural and collective identity--ultimately along racial lines. A provocative reinterpretation of American modernism, Our America also offers a new way of understanding current debates over the meaning of race, identity, multiculturalism, and pluralism. Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity--linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration Act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers such as Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, and Williams reinvented identity as an object of pathos--something that can be lost or found, defended or betrayed. Our America is both a history and a critique of this invention, tracing its development from the white supremacism of the Progressive period through the cultural pluralism of the Twenties. Michaels's sustained rereading of the texts of the period--the canonical, the popular, and the less familiar--exposes recurring concerns such as the reconception of the image of the Indian as a symbol of racial purity and national origins, the relation between World War I and race, contradictory appeals to the family as a model for the nation, and anxieties about reproduction that subliminally tie whiteness and national identity to incest, sterility, and impotence.
The Changing Perception Of America S National Identity With Regard To Ethnic Diversity
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Author : Pet Er
language : de
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-08-24
The Changing Perception Of America S National Identity With Regard To Ethnic Diversity written by Pet Er and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-24 with Literary Collections categories.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: “Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity - an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.” (Hubert H. Humphrey) This term paper deals with the reasons for the challenging task of defining America’s national identity and will introduce several historical concepts of defining this terminology. The aim of the following pages is to answer the question if the terms melting pot or salad bowl are truly reflecting a multicultural American society, if the myth of the American Dream includes all the various ethnicities living in the USA and if there is a unique national identity that is shared by the whole population of the U.S.
The Jewish Origins Of Cultural Pluralism
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Author : Daniel Greene
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
The Jewish Origins Of Cultural Pluralism written by Daniel Greene and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with Education categories.
Daniel Greene traces the emergence of the idea of cultural pluralism to the lived experiences of a group of Jewish college students and public intellectuals, including the philosopher Horace M. Kallen. These young Jews faced particular challenges as they sought to integrate themselves into the American academy and literary world of the early 20th century. At Harvard University, they founded an influential student organization known as the Menorah Association in 1906 and later the Menorah Journal, which became a leading voice of Jewish public opinion in the 1920s. In response to the idea that the American melting pot would erase all cultural differences, the Menorah Association advocated a pluralist America that would accommodate a thriving Jewish culture while bringing Jewishness into mainstream American life.
An American Friendship
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Author : David Weinfeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
An American Friendship written by David Weinfeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Cultural pluralism categories.
"An American Friendship narrates the development of cultural pluralism, an idea that emerged in the early twentieth century to explain and shape American diversity, as told through the unlikely friendship of two philosophers, Jewish immigrant and Zionist leader Horace Kallen, and African American Alain Locke, intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance"--
American Thought And Culture In The 21st Century
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Author : Martin Halliwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
American Thought And Culture In The 21st Century written by Martin Halliwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This volume considers the changing patterns of American thought and culture in its transition into the early 21st century.