The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics
Author | : Michael Novak |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Ethnic attitudes |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael Novak |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Ethnic attitudes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Novak |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2018-04-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351300660 |
This new, enlarged edition of an influential book originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnicsextends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are? Why are you different from others?" But the point of such inquiry is civility: "The new ethnic consciousness embodied in this book delights in recognition of subtle differences in the movements of the soul. It is not a call to separatism but to self-consciousness. It does not seek division but rather accurate, mutual appreciation." This new edition contains six new essays by the author, including the acclaimed "Pluralism: A Humanistic Perspective." New, too, is Novak's comprehensive introduction, bringing the argument up to date. Novak describes how and why ethnicity has become a prominent issue in American politics. He also sharply denounces the current ideology of "multiculturalism" as a disfiguration of genuine ethnicity. "Multiculturalism is moved by the eros of Narcissus" Novak writes, "the new ethnicity is driven by the eros of unrestricted understanding." When the book first appeared, Time said that "Novak has attacked the American Dream in order to open up a possible second chapter for it." Newsweek called it "a tough-minded, provocative book which could well signal an important change in American politics." This new edition adds crucial distinctions for those seeking an intelligent path through such current-day mystifications as "multiculturalism" and "diversity." Twenty-five years ago, Novak's argument led the way in focusing on families, neighborhoods, and other "mediating institutions" of civil society. It is an argument critical to a realistic sense of national community.
Author | : Richard Brookhiser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780029047217 |
For most of this century, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have been attached for being bland, elitist, and uptight. Brookhiser suggests instead that the classic WASP ideals of conscience, industry, public service, and duty to family are fundamentally American, and have shaped our country since its founding.
Author | : Kevin M. Kruse |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 039363454X |
"A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times.” —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States When—and how—did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment. It all starts in 1974 with the Watergate crisis, the OPEC oil embargo, desegregation busing riots in Boston, and the wind-down of the Vietnam War. What follows is the story of our own lifetimes. It is the story of ever-widening historical fault lines over economic inequality, race, gender, and sexual norms firing up a polarized political landscape. It is also the story of profound transformations of the media and our political system fueling the fire. Kruse and Zelizer’s Fault Lines is a master class in national divisions nearly five decades in the making.
Author | : Michael Novak |
Publisher | : Image |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0385347472 |
“In heavy seas, to stay on course it is indispensable to lean hard left at times, then hard right. The important thing is to have the courage to follow your intellect. Wherever the evidence leads. To the left or to the right.” –Michael Novak Engagingly, writing as if to old friends and foes, Michael Novak shows how Providence (not deliberate choice) placed him in the middle of many crucial events of his time: a month in wartime Vietnam, the student riots of the 1960s, the Reagan revolution, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Bill Clinton's welfare reform, and the struggles for human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also spent fascinating days, sometimes longer, with inspiring leaders like Sargent Shriver, Bobby Kennedy, George McGovern, Jack Kemp, Václav Havel, President Reagan, Lady Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II, who helped shape—and reshape—his political views. Yet through it all, as Novak’s sharply etched memoir shows, his focus on helping the poor and defending universal human rights remained constant; he gradually came to see building small businesses and envy-free democracies as the only realistic way to build free societies. Without economic growth from the bottom up, democracies are not stable. Without protections for liberties of conscience and economic creativity, democracies will fail. Free societies need three liberties in one: economic liberty, political liberty, and liberty of spirit. Novak’s writing throughout is warm, fast paced, and often very beautiful. His narrative power is memorable.
Author | : Michael Novak |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Sports |
ISBN | : 156833009X |
"...an exhilarating exercise full of uncanny insights..." - Publishers Weekly
Author | : Stephen Steinberg |
Publisher | : Boston : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
In this classic work, sociologist Stephen Steinberg rejects the prevailing view that cultural values and ethnic traits are the primary determinants of the economic destiny of racial and ethnic groups in America. He argues that locality, class conflict, selective migration, and other historical and economic factors play a far larger role not only in producing inequalities but in maintaining them as well, thus providing an insightful explanation into why some groups are successful in their pursuit of the American dream and others are not. -- amazon.com.
Author | : John Arkas Hawgood |
Publisher | : Ayer Publishing |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1970-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780405005541 |
Author | : Alfredo Montalvo-Barbot |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2019-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1498591442 |
This book examines multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the melting pot metaphor and explores how they emerged, evolved, and were implemented throughout American history. Alfredo Montalvo-Barbot analyzes how these ideologies have been legitimized, institutionalized, and challenged by activists, politicians, and intellectuals and studies how modern interculturalism offers a new model for bridging the cultural divide and for overcoming the limitations of previous state-sponsored multicultural policies and programs.
Author | : Tara Zahra |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2016-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393285596 |
"Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical perspective on the most consequential social phenomenon of the twentieth century, Tara Zahra shows how the policies that gave shape to this migration provided the precedent for future events such as the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and the tragedies of ethnic cleansing. In the epilogue, she places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration.