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Record Nr.

UNISA996248189103316

Autore

Hollinger David A

Titolo

Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity [[electronic resource] ] : Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States / / David A. Hollinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006

ISBN

0-299-21663-2

9786612270116

1-282-27011-7

Descrizione fisica

xxv, 213 p

Collana

Studies in American thought and culture

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Christianity and culture - United States

Church and education - United States

Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States

Cultural relativism - United States

Solidarity - United States

Cosmopolitanism - United States

Multiculturalism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Religion

United States Ethnic relations

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Amalgamation and hypodescent : the question of ethnoracial mixture in the history of the United States -- The one drop rule and the one hate rule -- The historian's use of the United States and vice versa -- Money and academic freedom a half-century after McCarthyism : universities amid the force fields of capital -- Enough already : universities do not need more Christianity -- The enlightenment and the genealogy of contemporary cultural conflict in the United States -- Why are Jews preeminent in science and scholarship? the Veblen Thesis reconsidered -- Rich, powerful, and smart : Jewish overrepresentation should be



explained instead of avoided or mystified -- Cultural relativism.