Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in American LifeTransaction Publishers - 486 páginas "There is no such thing as one homo Americanus. There is no single culture here." So begins this extraordinary volume on ethnicity in America by Michael Novak. The point of this book, which was originally published as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics, is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience. Its aim is 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? And have you noticed the ways in which you are distinct? The new text now contains a fourth part, "Ethnicity in the Seventies and Beyond," comprising six new chapters: "The New Ethnicity"; "Pluralism: A Humanistic Perspective"; "Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity"; "How American are You if Your Grandparents Came from Slovakia in 1888?"; "One Species, Many Cultures"; and "The Social World of Individuals." The author has also written a comprehensive new introduction, discussing the changes that have occurred since the book was first written, detailing how ethnicity has become a prominent issue in politics, and adamantly denouncing the current trend known as "multiculturalism," which, Novak notes, has been improperly associated with ethnicity. 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." Unmeltable Ethnics is of significant interest to sociologists, political theorists, and scholars and students interested in ethnicity, and how it has become part of the mid-1990s debate on American society and its future. |
Contenido
| ix | |
| xxxvii | |
| xlix | |
Acknowledgements | lv |
ETHNIC ASSERTION | 1 |
YOU CANT GO HOME AGAIN | 59 |
Inferiority in America | 85 |
Remembrance | 137 |
THE NEW ETHNIC POLITICS | 277 |
The Ethnic Democratic Party | 314 |
The New Ethnicity | 345 |
A Humanistic Perspective | 360 |
Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity | 387 |
How American Are You If Your Grandparents | 399 |
One Species Many Cultures | 420 |
The Social World of Individuals | 437 |
THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE PEOPLE | 157 |
The Concept of the AvantGarde | 181 |
Jewish and Catholic | 197 |
Authentic? Authoritarian? | 232 |
Notes | 453 |
Bibliography | 471 |
Index | 481 |
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Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in American Life Michael Novak Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics & Culture in American Life Michael Novak Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
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Página 211 - Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge 1 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Página 98 - I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences.
Página 96 - Deeply stained with dirt; soiled, dirty, foul. . . . Having dark or deadly purposes, malignant; pertaining to or involving death, deadly; baneful, disastrous, sinister. . . . Foul, iniquitous, atrocious, horrible, wicked. . . . Indicating disgrace, censure, liability to punishment, etc.
Página 273 - ... Washington Hall and join our Glee Club. He comes and sings, and he's a follower of Plunkitt for life. Another young feller gains a reputation as a base-ball player in a vacant lot. I bring him into our base-ball club. That fixes him. You'll find him workin' for my ticket at the polls next election day. Then there's the feller that likes rowin...
Página 122 - With respect to aristocracy, we should further consider that, before the establishment of the American states, nothing was known to history but the man of the Old World, crowded within limits either small or overcharged and steeped in the vices which that situation generates.
Página 99 - They are more ardent after their female: but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation.
Página 122 - Here every one may have land to labor for himself, if he chooses; or, preferring the exercise of any other industry, may exact for it such compensation as not only to afford a comfortable subsistence, but wherewith to provide for a cessation from labor in old age. Every one, by his property, or by his satisfactory situation, is interested in the support of law and order.
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The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined the ... John J. Miller Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
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