Transnational America - Cultural Pluralist Thought in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor By Everett Helmut Akam Klappentext In Transnational America, Everett Akam brilliantly addresses one of the most fundamental issues of our time--how Americans might achieve a sense of racial and ethnic identity while simultaneously retaining the common ground of shared traditions and citizenship. This book transcends the current debates over multiculturalism and cultural pluralism by retrieving the tradition of cultural pluralist thought neglected since the first half of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The uniqueness of the many American ethnicities provides the roots of US identity! yet recognizing those differences often makes Americans feel isolated from the whole. This work relies on the tradition of cultural pluralism to argue that unity and individuality are not mutually exclusive. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Truth and Consequences Chapter 3 Transnational America versus the Melting Pot Chapter 4 Horace Kallen and the Community of Consumption Chapter 5 John Collier and the Red Atlantis Chapter 6 Merger without Fusion: Alain Locke's Cosmopolitan Pluralism Chapter 7 The Eclipse of Cultural Pluralist Thought Chapter 8 Epilogue: The Civil Rights Movement as Beloved Community

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• Authors: Everett Akam, Everett (Professor of History Akam, Everett Helmut Akam, Akam Everett Helmut
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2002
• EAN: 9780742521988
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2198-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: American Intellectual Culture; American Intellectual Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies