Speaking of Diversity : Language and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century America / Philip Gleason.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (330 pages)Content type:
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Contents:
Introduction -- part 1 Coming to Terms with Ethnicity -- 1 The Melting Pot: Symbol of Fusion or Confusion? (starting pages 3) -- 2 Confusion Compounded: A Melting Pot Update (starting pages 32) -- 3 The Odd Couple: Pluralism and Assimilation (starting pages 47) -- 4 Minorities (Almost) All (starting pages 91) -- 5 Identifying Identity: A Semantic History (starting pages 123) -- part 2 World War II and American Identity -- 6 Americans All (starting pages 153) -- 7 The Study of American Culture (starting pages 188) -- 8 Pluralism, Democracy, and Catholicism: Religious Tensions (starting pages 207) -- part 3 Religion and American Diversity -- 9 Hansen, Herberg, and American Religion (starting pages 231) -- 10 Immigration, Religion, and Civil Religion (starting pages 250) -- 11 "Americanism" in American Catholic Discourse (starting pages 272) -- Index (starting pages 301)
Review: "In recent years U.S. social history has taken dramatic strides in studies of race, gender, and ethnicity. Among historians of American ethnic groups, Philip Gleason has played a leading role in that development. His essays analyzing the terms of public and scholarly discourse--mapping the changing conceptions of American identity during the past half century--make a distinctive contribution to intellectual history." "Speaking of Diversity collects eleven of Gleason's seminal essays, each of them examining twentieth-century American thought on ethnic and religious diversity. Part 1 focuses specifically on linguistic and conceptual analysis, treating terms such as melting-pot, pluralism, identity, and minority. Part 2 explores the impact of World War II on American thinking about diversity, tolerance, and intergroup relations. Part 3 consists of essays on religion, all closely tied to themes in earlier essays. Together, they form a model of methodological and thematic unity. The essays also clear the ground as Americans continue their efforts to realize the stated goals of tolerance, diversity, and order."--Jacket
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Originally published in 1992.

Introduction -- part 1 Coming to Terms with Ethnicity -- 1 The Melting Pot: Symbol of Fusion or Confusion? (starting pages 3) -- 2 Confusion Compounded: A Melting Pot Update (starting pages 32) -- 3 The Odd Couple: Pluralism and Assimilation (starting pages 47) -- 4 Minorities (Almost) All (starting pages 91) -- 5 Identifying Identity: A Semantic History (starting pages 123) -- part 2 World War II and American Identity -- 6 Americans All (starting pages 153) -- 7 The Study of American Culture (starting pages 188) -- 8 Pluralism, Democracy, and Catholicism: Religious Tensions (starting pages 207) -- part 3 Religion and American Diversity -- 9 Hansen, Herberg, and American Religion (starting pages 231) -- 10 Immigration, Religion, and Civil Religion (starting pages 250) -- 11 "Americanism" in American Catholic Discourse (starting pages 272) -- Index (starting pages 301)

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"In recent years U.S. social history has taken dramatic strides in studies of race, gender, and ethnicity. Among historians of American ethnic groups, Philip Gleason has played a leading role in that development. His essays analyzing the terms of public and scholarly discourse--mapping the changing conceptions of American identity during the past half century--make a distinctive contribution to intellectual history." "Speaking of Diversity collects eleven of Gleason's seminal essays, each of them examining twentieth-century American thought on ethnic and religious diversity. Part 1 focuses specifically on linguistic and conceptual analysis, treating terms such as melting-pot, pluralism, identity, and minority. Part 2 explores the impact of World War II on American thinking about diversity, tolerance, and intergroup relations. Part 3 consists of essays on religion, all closely tied to themes in earlier essays. Together, they form a model of methodological and thematic unity. The essays also clear the ground as Americans continue their efforts to realize the stated goals of tolerance, diversity, and order."--Jacket

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