Postethnic America

Author : David A. Hollinger
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786722282
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postethnic America written by David A. Hollinger and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995, Postethnic America was widely hailed as a groundbreaking proposal for healing our nation's ethnic divisions. David A. Hollinger, one of America's foremost intellectual historians, argues for replacing the pluralist model of multiculturalism that is based on the idea of group rights with a cosmopolitan model that recognizes the reality of shifting group boundaries and multiple identities. Postethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise, and a stirring call for a new form of nationalism. In this tenth-anniversary edition, Hollinger has added a new postscript in which he responds to his critics and addresses the contemporary conversation about race, ethnicity, inequality, and nationalism in America.

Author : Shaul Magid
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253008026
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Post-Judaism written by Shaul Magid and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness

Author : Jean-Christophe Agnew
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405123192
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Post-1945 America written by Jean-Christophe Agnew and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collectionof 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography ofPost-1945 America. Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics andforeign policy Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every importantera and topic Includes book review section on essential readings

Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520224391
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Nationalist American Studies written by John Carlos Rowe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American studies in the Cold War era, adopting a less insular, more transnational approach to the subject.

Author : Gerald Lyn Early
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0553806920
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best African American Essays 2010 written by Gerald Lyn Early and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Horlacher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317077113
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture written by Stefan Horlacher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the construction of masculinity in each country. The contributors take up issues related to how certain kinds of nationally specific masculine identifications are produced, how these change over time, and how literature and other forms of cultural representation eventually question and deconstruct their own myths of masculinity. Focusing on the period from the end of World War II to the 1980s, the essays each take up a topic with particular cultural and historical resonance, whether it is hypermasculinity in early cold war films; the articulation of male anxieties in plays by Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Sam Shepard; the evolution of photographic depictions of masculinity from the 1960s to the 1980s; or the representations of masculinity in the fiction of American and British writers such as Patricia Highsmith, Richard Yates, John Braine, Martin Amis, Evan S. Connell, James Dickey, John Berger, Philip Roth, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston. The editors and contributors make a case for the importance of understanding the larger context for the emergence of more pluralistic, culturally differentiated and ultimately transnational masculinities, arguing that it is possible to conceptualize and emphasize difference and commonality simultaneously.

Author : Hyesu Park
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000482332
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alterity and Empathy in Post-1945 Asian American Narratives written by Hyesu Park and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Asian American authors since 1945 have deployed the stereotype of Asian American inscrutability in order to re-examine and debunk the stereotype in various ways. By paying special attention to what narrative theorists have regarded as one of the most extraordinary aspects of fiction—its ability to give (or else deny) readers a remarkably detailed knowledge of the inner lives of their characters—this book explores deeply and systematically the specific ways Asian American narratives attribute inscrutable minds to Asian American characters, situating them at various points along a spectrum stretching between alterity and empathy. Ultimately, the book reveals the link between narrative form and larger cultural issues associated with the representation of Asian American minds, and how a nuanced investigation of narrative form can yield insights into the sociocultural embeddedness of Asian American literature under the case studies—insights that would not be available if such formal questions were by passed.

Author : Michael Suleiman
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 143990653X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabs in America written by Michael Suleiman and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the record straight about Arab American culture.

Author : Florian Sedlmeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311036848X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postethnic Literary written by Florian Sedlmeier and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates the reception of literary texts according to the paradigm of representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary texts for their investment in literary form. By means of self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused on Dave Eggers.

Author : Edmund Fong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317642791
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Exceptionalism and the Remains of Race written by Edmund Fong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary American political culture, claims of American exceptionalism and anxieties over its prospects have resurged as an overarching theme in national political discourse. Yet never very far from such debates lie animating fears associated with race. Fears about the loss of national unity and trust often draw attention to looming changes in the racial demographics of the body politic. Lost amid these debates are often the more complex legacies of racial hybridity. Anxieties over the disintegration of the fabric of American national identity likewise forget not just how they echo past fears of subversive racial and cultural difference, but also exorcise as well the changing nature of work and social interaction. Edmund Fong’s book examines the rise and resurgence of contemporary forms of American exceptionalism as they have emerged out of contentious debates over cultural pluralism and multicultural diversity in the past two decades. For a brief time, serious considerations of the force of multiculturalism entered into a variety of philosophical and policy debates. But in the American context, these debates often led to a reaffirmation of some variant of American exceptionalism with the consequent exorcism of race within the avowed norms and policy goals of American politics. Fong explores how this "multicultural exorcism" revitalizing American exceptionalism is not simply a novel feature of our contemporary political moment, but is instead a recurrent dynamic across the history of American political discourse. By situating contemporary discourse on cultural pluralism within the larger frame of American history, this book yields insight into the production of hegemonic forms of American exceptionalism and how race continues to haunt the contours of American national identity.