Postethnic America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postethnic America write by David A Hollinger. This book was released on 2006-02-28. Postethnic America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing to stop the fragmenting of American society into competing ethnic enclaves, each concerned primarily with its own well-being. Hollinger argues instead for a new cosmopolitanism, an appreciation of multiple identities -- new cross-cultural affiliations based not on the biologically given but on consent, on the right to emphasize or diminish the significance of one's ethnoracial affiliation. Postethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise as a haven for all peoples. While recognizing the Eurocentric narrowness of that older universalism, Hollinger makes a stirring call for a new nationalism. He urges that a democratic nation-state like ours must help bridge the gap between our common fellowship as human beings and the great variety of ethnic and racial groups represented within the United States.
American Post-Judaism
American Post-Judaism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Post-Judaism write by Shaul Magid. This book was released on 2013-04-09. American Post-Judaism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness
Post-Nationalist American Studies
Post-Nationalist American Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Nationalist American Studies write by John Carlos Rowe. This book was released on 2000-12-04. Post-Nationalist American Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The goal of the book's contributors is a less insular, more trans-national, comparative approach to American Studies, one that questions dominant American myths rather than canonizes them. Articulating new ways to think about American Studies, these essays demonstrate how diverse the field has become. Contributors are concerned with cross-cultural communication, race and gender, global and local identities, and the complex tensions between symbolic and political economies. Their essays explore, among other topics, the construction of "foreign" peoples and cultures; the notion of borders—territorial, racial, economic, and sexual; the "multilingual reality" of the United States; the place of the Mexican-American War in U.S. history; and the significance of Tiger Woods in today's global market of consumption. Together, the essays propose a renewed vision of the United States' role in the world and how American Studies scholarship can address that vision. Each contributor includes a sample syllabus showing how the issues discussed in individual essays can be brought into the classroom.
Best African American Essays 2010
Best African American Essays 2010 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Best African American Essays 2010 write by Gerald Lyn Early. This book was released on 2009. Best African American Essays 2010 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture
Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture write by Stefan Horlacher. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
