Politics of Multiculturalism and Crisis of American Identity
Author: Citrin
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Published: 2007-07-09
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ISBN-13: 9780520234185
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American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Author: Jack Citrin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-11
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 052182883X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses national public opinion data and public opinion data from Los Angeles to compare ethnic differences in patriotism and ethnic identity and ethnic differences in support for multicultural norms and group-conscious policies. The authors find evidence of strong patriotism among all groups and the classic pattern of assimilation among the new wave of immigrants.
Who are We?
Author: Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780684866697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica was founded by settlers who brought with them a distinct culture including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of later immigrants came gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of immigrants, bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American élites. September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism, but already there are signs that this is fading. This book shows the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans.--From publisher description.
One America?
Author: Stanley Allen Renshon
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780878408696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresented by Renshon (political science, City U. of New York), 12 contributions examine identity politics in the United States from a number of ideological perspectives, exploring what it means to be an American and calling for various courses of action. Some argue that the problem can be found in the inability of our political leaders to show authenticity and courage in tackling racial differences. Other articles suggest that affirmative action, school integration, and other initiatives that have hitherto been based on race should instead be based on class, in order to broaden public acceptance and address real inequalities. Still other viewpoints argue that increased immigration is a divisive problem, that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 paved the way for a dangerous emphasis on multiculturalism; and they criticize Bill Clinton's initiative on race as empty, scripted public relations events. c. Book News Inc.
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Author: Jack Citrin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-11
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1139991604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum anew, and multiculturalism emerged as a new ideological response to this dilemma. This book uses national public opinion data and public opinion data from Los Angeles to compare ethnic differences in patriotism and ethnic identity and ethnic differences in support for multicultural norms and group-conscious policies. The authors find evidence of strong patriotism among all groups and the classic pattern of assimilation among the new wave of immigrants. They argue that there is a consensus in rejecting harder forms of multiculturalism that insist on group rights but also a widespread acceptance of softer forms that are tolerant of cultural differences and do not challenge norms, such as by insisting on the primacy of English.
The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas
Author: Olaf Kaltmeier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1351541935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMulticulturalism has shaped identity politics in the Americas over the past decades, as illustrated by politics of recognition, affirmative action, and increasing numbers of internationally recognized cultural productions by members of ethnic minorities. Hinting at postcolonial legacies in political rhetoric and practice multiculturalism has also served as a driving force behind social movements in the Americas. Nevertheless, in current academic discussions and public debates on migration, globalization and identity politics, concepts like new ethnicities, ethnic groupism, creolization, hybridity, mestizaje, diasporas, and "post-ethnicity" articulate positionings that are profoundly changing our understanding of "multiculturalism." Combining theoretical reflections with case studies the aim of this book is to demonstrate the current dynamics of (post-) multicultural politics in the Americas.This book was based on a special issue of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
Last Best Hope
Author: George Packer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0374603677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of The New York Times's 100 notable books of 2021 "[George Packer's] account of America’s decline into destructive tribalism is always illuminating and often dazzling." —William Galston, The Washington Post Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing protests, and an election marred by conspiracy theories left many citizens in despair about their country and its democratic experiment. With pitiless precision, the year exposed the nation’s underlying conditions—discredited elites, weakened institutions, blatant inequalities—and how difficult they are to remedy. In Last Best Hope, George Packer traces the shocks back to their sources. He explores the four narratives that now dominate American life: Free America, which imagines a nation of separate individuals and serves the interests of corporations and the wealthy; Smart America, the world view of Silicon Valley and the professional elite; Real America, the white Christian nationalism of the heartland; and Just America, which sees citizens as members of identity groups that inflict or suffer oppression. In lively and biting prose, Packer shows that none of these narratives can sustain a democracy. To point a more hopeful way forward, he looks for a common American identity and finds it in the passion for equality—the “hidden code”—that Americans of diverse persuasions have held for centuries. Today, we are challenged again to fight for equality and renew what Alexis de Tocqueville called “the art” of self-government. In its strong voice and trenchant analysis, Last Best Hope is an essential contribution to the literature of national renewal.
American Politics
Author: Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674030213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He shows how Americans have always been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority, but how these ideals have been frustrated through institutions and hierarchies needed to govern a democracy.
Multicultural States
Author: David Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 113480797X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of the nation is globally in crisis, but multiculturalism has often seemed to name a specifically national debate. Multicultural States challenges the national focus of these debates by investigating theories, policies and practices of cultural pluralism across eight countries with historical links in British colonialism: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Ireland and Britain. This important book combines discussions of the principles of multiculturalism with studies of specific local histories and political conflicts. The contributors discuss: * communalism and colonialism in India * Irish sectarianism and postmodern identity politics * ethnic nationalism in post-apartheid South Africa * British multiculturalism as part of the heritage industry * feminism and Australian republicanism. Contributors: Ien Ang, David Attwell, Homi K. Bhabha, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Abena P. A. Busia, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Terry Eagleton, John Frow, Henry A. Giroux, Ihab Hassan, Smaro Kamboureli, Maria Koundoura, Beryl Langer, Anne Maxwell, Meaghan Morris, Susan Mathieson and Jon Stratton
Tribalizing America
Author: Ifezue Okoli
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2004-09
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1434300498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a consciousness raising effort to call attention to the imminent crisis in America's identity and the reality of the implications thereof. It urges America to return to emphasizing a unified people, instead of emphasizing ethnicity and divergent cultures. America's success as a nation, and one like no other, lies in her identity and character. America's identity and character, in turn, lies in successfully maintaining the delicate balance between individual identity and group identity. The foundation of America's essential character is in the belief that individual rights precede and rank above group rights; and that collective individual rights should determine group rights; that group rights should derive from individual rights, not determine them. This is the essence of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which, perhaps, are the two greatest testaments of democracy in human history. Some people characterize the emerging crisis in America's identity as a sign of inevitable coming of age the shedding of "quaint modernist idealism", for trendy postmodernist multiculturalism, as borne by the "vehicle" of political correctness, on the road to progress. The author, while recognizing the merits of political correctness, disagrees with this notion, characterizing it as multiculturalism driving the vehicle of political correctness to the terminus of chaos. He believes that there is unnecessary and excessive emphasis on ethnicity and groups in America that threatens to erode the essence of the American citizenship and identity, because it encourages cultural divergence or parallel cultures, hence a "tribal-like" consciousness. This book calls for America's return to ideas and values that have worked and made America successful thus far a common language instead of multiple languages, individual rights instead of group rights, unified culture instead of parallel cultures. The author warns that if America
