World Made Safe for Differences - Cold War Intellectuals and the Politics of Identity

Informationen zum Autor By Christopher Shannon Klappentext In A World Made Safe for Differences, Christopher Shannon examines how an anthropological definition of culture shaped the central political and social narratives of the Cold War era. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, American intellectuals understood culture as a "whole way of life" and a "pattern of values" in order to account for and accommodate differences between America and other countries, and within America itself. Shannon locates the ideological origins of current debates about multiculturalism in the pluralist thought of "consensus" liberalism. The emphasis on individualism in contemporary identity politics, Shannon suggests, must be understood as a legacy of the Cold War liberalism of the 1950s rather than the counter-culture radicalism of the 1960s. Zusammenfassung Examines how an anthropological definition of culture shaped the central political and social narratives of the Cold War era. This work locates the ideological origins of debates about multiculturalism in the pluralist thought of consensus liberalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Integrating the WorldChapter 2: Culture and CountercultureChapter 3: The Negro DilemmaChapter 4: Beyond the Unmeltable EthicsChapter 5: The Feminist MystiqueChapter 6: Compulsory SexualityConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Shannon, Shannon Christopher
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2006
• EAN: 9780847690589
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9058-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: American Intellectual Culture; American Intellectual Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, General and world history, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies