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Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America » Read Now
by James Davison Hunter. 416 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...3 The Historical Roots of the Culture War 67 The Expansion...Politician and the Culture War: Who Is Using Whom? 286...lives intersects an issue of the culture war: a...
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Soldiers of Misfortune: The New Right's Culture War and the Politics of Political Correctness » Read Now
by Valerie L. Scatamburlo. 272 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Misfortune The New Rights Culture War and the Politics of Political...Soldiers of misfortune: the New Rights culture war and the politics of political...Soldiers of...
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War without End: Cultural Conflict and the Struggle for America's Political Future » Read Now
by Robert Shogan. 329 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Carville might have put it: "Its the Culture War, stupid." In fact, the 2000 campaign...another engagement in the prolonged Culture War that has helped to shape and...
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From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate » Read Now
by Don S. Browning, Pamela D. Couture, Robert M. Franklin, K. Brynolf Lyon, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore. 399 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Religion, Economics, and Public Policy: Ironies, Tragedies, and Absurdities of the Contemporary Culture Wars » Read Now
by Andrew D. Walsh. 156 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

As Americans begin to dismantle the safety net of the New Deal era, the most popular version of the culture wars' thesis paints an arguably cosmic battle between defenders of religious orthodoxy who embrace laissez-faire capitalism and secular elites who have imposed a Marxist welfare state upon an...
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As Americans begin to dismantle the safety net of the New Deal era, the most popular version of the culture wars' thesis paints an arguably cosmic battle between defenders of religious orthodoxy who embrace laissez-faire capitalism and secular elites who have imposed a Marxist welfare state upon an unsuspecting populace. Walsh shows that this thesis ignores the role of religious leaders in legitimizing the types of programs embodied in America's approach to the welfare state.
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Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars » Read Now
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 204 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and...
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Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and Catherine Stimpson on "Firing Line." It is arguably the most hotly debated topic in America today--and justly so. For whether one speaks of tensions between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights, or violent mass protests against Moscow in ethnic republics such as Armenia, or outright war between Serbs and Bosnians in the former Yugoslavia, it is clear that the clash of cultures is a worldwide problem, deeply felt, passionately expressed, always on the verge of violent explosion. Problems of this magnitude inevitably frame the discussion of "multiculturalism" and "cultural diversity" in the American classroom as well. In Loose Canons, one of America's leading literary and cultural critics, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., offers a broad, illuminating look at this highly contentious issue. Gates agrees that our world is deeply divided by nationalism, racism, and sexism, and argues that the only way to transcend these divisions--to forge a civic culture that respects both differences and similarities--is through education that respects both the diversity and commonalities of human culture. His is a plea for cultural and intercultural understanding. (You can't understand the world, he observes, if you exclude 90 percent of the world's cultural heritage.) We feel his ideas most strongly voiced in the concluding essay in the volume, "Trading on the Margin." Avoiding the stridency of both the Right and the Left, Gates concludes that the society we have made simply won't survive without the values of tolerance, and cultural tolerance comes to nothing without cultural understanding. Henry Louis Gates is one of the most visible and outspoken figures on the academic scene, the subject of a cover story in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and a major profile in The Boston Globe, and a much sought-after commentator. And as one of America's foremost advocates of African-American Studies (he is head of the department at Harvard), he has reflected upon the varied meanings of multiculturalism throughout his professional career, long before it became a national controversy. What we find in these pages, then, is the fruit of years of reflection on culture, racism, and the "American identity," and a deep commitment to broadening the literary and cultural horizons of all Americans.
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Why There Is a Culture War, in Policy Review » Read Now
by John Fonte. 18 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Why There Is A Culture War. by JOHN FONTE Gramsci...American businesses response to the culture war. The Tocquevillian counterattack...Scalia wrote, "takes sides in the...
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Political Correctness and Cultural Studies, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by James W. Carey. 17 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education » Read Now
by John K. Wilson. 206 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Is America in a Culture War? Yes - No - Sort Of, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by Rhys H. Williams. 5 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Is America in a culture war? Yes - no - sort of by Rhys...own sound bite. We are witnessing a "culture war," we are told. American politics is...the national spotlight to...
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Culture War No More?, in First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life » Read Now
by Nuechterlein, James. 4 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Culture War No More? by James Nuechterlein...conservatives think theyre engaged in a culture war, and many of them think theyre losing it...them theyre wrong on both counts...
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City against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American Metropolis » Read Now
by Joseph A. Rodriguez. 144 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

The culture wars continue to rage across the United States. Clashes over hate speech regulations, affirmative action, abortion, immigration, art, history, and lifestyle questions suggest that America is more polarized than ever before. This study looks at the rapid changes occurring in cities and...
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The culture wars continue to rage across the United States. Clashes over hate speech regulations, affirmative action, abortion, immigration, art, history, and lifestyle questions suggest that America is more polarized than ever before. This study looks at the rapid changes occurring in cities and suburbs in order to understand these cultural conflicts which, according to Rodriguez, have arisen in part because Americans continue to view themselves as city people or suburbanites in a time when the two areas are converging. As suburbs draw more businesses and residents, they produce new forms of art and cultural events which longtime residents resist as undermining the essentially residential quality of suburbs. Similarly, in cities, new parking structures, highways, and downtown malls produce suburban landscapes that urbanites reject, seeing those changes as evidence of the intrusion of suburban culture. Four community conflicts in the Bay Area from the 1960s to the 1990s illustrate these changes.
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Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion Essays, 1964-1999 » Read Now
by Martin Duberman. 472 pgs.

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For the past 35 years, radical historian and activist Martin Duberman has fought for a more equitable society. This collection of essays presents his views on matters such as race, foreign policy, educational reform, gender, and sexuality. There is a historical reconsideration of slavery and...
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For the past 35 years, radical historian and activist Martin Duberman has fought for a more equitable society. This collection of essays presents his views on matters such as race, foreign policy, educational reform, gender, and sexuality. There is a historical reconsideration of slavery and antislavery, a discussion of the political struggles of the 1960s and 1970s and the cultural battles of gender and sexuality in the 1980s and 1990s, and an evaluation of the current division on the Left between class-based and identity-based politics. Some essays are expanded and updated. Pieces originally appeared in publications such as The Nation, The New York Times, and The Village Voice.
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Are You Politically Correct? Debating America's Cultural Standards » Read Now
by Michael E. Bauman, Francis J. Beckwith. 264 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Human Diversity and the Culture Wars: A Philosophical Perspective on Contemporary Cultural Conflict » Read Now
by Philip E. Devine. 198 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Raising the war on political correctness to a new and higher intellectual level, Philip Devine sheds fresh light on the whole question of cultural standards and the fashionable notion of multiculturalism. While acknowledging the diversity of ways of life and the differing belief systems that arise...
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Raising the war on political correctness to a new and higher intellectual level, Philip Devine sheds fresh light on the whole question of cultural standards and the fashionable notion of multiculturalism. While acknowledging the diversity of ways of life and the differing belief systems that arise from and justify those ways of life, the author attacks the current exploitation of diversity to justify a militantly intolerant relativism. His wide-ranging and erudite work connects cultural issues to our real-world existence as biological and historical beings, pulling together ideas of bioethics, education, and the structure and purpose of families. This work will be of interest to those fighting the culture wars across the humanities and social and behavioral sciences.
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Creating Cultural Motifs against Terrorism: Empowering Acceptance of Our Uniqueness » Read Now
by Don J. Feeney Jr. 179 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

Unlike any other book regarding September 11, 2001, this book employs metaphors across disciplines (psychology, music, history, literature, politics, and physics among them) to show how the roots of terrorism reach to cultural motifs, or themes and principles. Terrorism is depicted as rigid...
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Unlike any other book regarding September 11, 2001, this book employs metaphors across disciplines (psychology, music, history, literature, politics, and physics among them) to show how the roots of terrorism reach to cultural motifs, or themes and principles. Terrorism is depicted as rigid, fundamentalistic entrancement of such motifs. By unfolding and empowering unique, idiosyncratic facets of each culture, Feeney suggests, we can nurture healthy exchange, dialogue, and global interface creating peace and compatibility while eradicating the roots of terrorism.
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