American Identity And The Politics Of Multiculturalism

Author : Jack Citrin,David O. Sears
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521828833

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American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism by Jack Citrin,David O. Sears Pdf

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.

Author : Citrin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0520234189

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Politics of Multiculturalism and Crisis of American Identity by Citrin Pdf

Author : Olaf Kaltmeier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351541930

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The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas by Olaf Kaltmeier Pdf

Multiculturalism 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.

Author : Stanley Allen Renshon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cultural pluralism)
ISBN : 087840869X

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One America? by Stanley Allen Renshon Pdf

Presented 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.

Author : Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : UOM:39076001936629

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Multiculturalism and American Democracy by Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy Pdf

The fourteen essays in this volume address the pros and cons of multiculturalism and explore its relationship with liberal democracy.

Author : Rik Pinxten,Ghislain Verstraete,Chia Longman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800733930

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Culture and Politics by Rik Pinxten,Ghislain Verstraete,Chia Longman Pdf

With "race" being discredited as a rallying cry for populist movements because of the atrocities committed in its name during World War II, "culture" has been adopted by right-wing groups instead, but used in the same exclusionary manner as racism was. This volume examines the essentialism, which is implicit in racial theories and re-emerges in the ideological use of cultural identity in new rightist movements, and presents case studies from different parts of the world where researchers were confronted with racism and worked out ways of coping with it.

Author : Linda Trinh Moser,Kathryn West
Publisher : Salem Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
ISBN : 1619254077

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American Multicultural Identity by Linda Trinh Moser,Kathryn West Pdf

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... the question of what it means to be an American is contemplated in many works of fiction and nonfiction. The editors of The American Identity examine the American character, life in the 'melting pot,' and the many facets of American identity in popular literature. Close readings of the most important works in this genre sheds a new light on the study of this wide-ranging theme.

Author : David Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134807970

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Multicultural States by David Bennett Pdf

The 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

Author : Rita Dhamoon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 077485877X

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Identity/Difference Politics by Rita Dhamoon Pdf

Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in contemporary western political theory. Identity/Difference Politics offers a nuanced critique of these debates by switching the focus from culture to power. Issues of power are examined through accounts of meaning-making – those processes through which meanings of difference are produced, organized, and regulated. Other forms of identity/difference such as whiteness, ableism, gender, and heteronormativity establish the analytic and normative value of Dhamoon’s alternative theoretical framework, and reveal that an exclusive preoccupation with culture can dissolve into essentialism – which too often provides a rationale for state regulation of groups deemed to be too different.

Author : Amira Karam
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668921696

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Who is american? A definition of American Identity by Amira Karam Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: This paper focuses on what it means to be an American and if it is possible for people and immigrants with different cultural backgrounds to acquire an American Identity. In want to find out if the American exceptionalism and its three dimensions give an impression of what it means to gain an American identity. Obviously, being American means to share the same values, but it is not clear if it means to also share the same citizenship. I take a close look at the idea of multiculturalism that challenges the current ideological solutions for equality and diversity in the United States, trying to answer the question whether multiculturalism is or is not a threat to the idea of an American Identity. The meaning and consequences of national identification have long been the subject of debate among philosophers, historian, and social scientist. The identification with the American country through national attachment, pride, and loyalty is self-evident for many Americans. A national identity shared by fellow citizen creates a sense of unity and a bond of solidarity. The question of what defines an identity or the American identity, to be specific, is not clarified. What is clear, however, is the important and vast difference between a patriot, who feels a sense of pride and love for his country, while the nationalist views his country as superior with a desire to dominate other countries. However, both are bond by their trust for the American values. Freedom, Truth, Justice and the American way of life.

Author : Winfried Siemerling
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780415335980

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The New North American Studies by Winfried Siemerling Pdf

Winner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke. In this original and groundbreaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of identity and recognition in the meaning of 'American'.

Author : Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472023764

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Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law by Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns Pdf

We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to preserve them. Where it once seemed that the ideal of American citizenship was found in the promise of integration and in the hope that none of us would be singled out for, let alone judged by, our race or ethnicity, today integration, often taken to mean a denial of identity and history for subordinated racial, gender, sexual or ethnic groups, is often rejected, and new terms of inclusion are sought. The essays in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law ask us to examine carefully the relation of cultural struggle and material transformation and law's role in both. Written by scholars from a variety of disciplines and theoretical inclinations, the essays challenge orthodox understandings of the nature of identity politics and contemporary debates about separatism and assimilation. They ask us to think seriously about the ways law has been, and is, implicated in these debates. The essays address questions such as the challenges posed for notions of legal justice and procedural fairness by cultural pluralism and identity politics, the role played by law in structuring the terms on which recognition, accommodation, and inclusion are accorded to groups in the United States, and how much of accepted notions of law are defined by an ideal of integration and assimilation. The contributors are Elizabeth Clark, Lauren Berlant, Dorothy Roberts, Georg Lipsitz, and Kenneth Karst.

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191622458

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Multicultural Citizenship by Will Kymlicka Pdf

The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain sorts of `collective rights' for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to recognizing such rights on grounds of individual freedom, social justice, and national unity, can be answered. However, Professor Kymlicka emphasises that no single formula can be applied to all groups and that the needs and aspirations of immigrants are very different from those of indigenous peoples and national minorities. The book discusses issues such as language rights, group representation, religious education, federalism, and secession - issues which are central to understanding multicultural politics, but which have been surprisingly neglected in contemporary liberal theory.

Author : Sherrow O. Pinder
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000067786138

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The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States by Sherrow O. Pinder Pdf

This book examines and analyzes Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America. It shows that America’s cultural homogeneity, which is based on “whiteness,” has important consequences for racialized ethnic groups in America. The question, then, of who is an American becomes overriding. Although racialized ethnic groups remain unassimilated into the dominant culture, the recognition and celebration of the non-dominant cultures are important for multiculturalism. However, non-dominant cultures are tied to cultural otherness. Cultural otherness is looked upon as Un-Americanness. For this reason, there is a need to move beyond multiculturalism. “Postmulticulturalism,” then, would be the new possibility.

Author : Sarah A. Radcliffe,Sallie Westwood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0415123372

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Remaking the Nation by Sarah A. Radcliffe,Sallie Westwood Pdf

Review: "Predictable postmodernist analysis of Ecuador's national identity. Examines gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Case study of nation's development out of inchoate space"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.