Color, culture, civilization : race and minority issues in American society
For nearly a century, the discourse on ethnoracial minorities in the United States has been framed by debates over assimilation versus pluralism. In this challenging look at race, culture, and the nature of integration, Stanford Lyman explores that discourse, from its philosophical origins in intellectual responses to the "Jewish Question" to its contemporary formulations. Lyman's subjects range from Robert E. Park's shifting views on the relation between assimilation and civilizational advance through the imagery of ethnic groups found in novels, slave narratives, and film; the challenge to ethnohistorical views represented by the Chinese diaspora; and the "badge of slavery" that Asian, Hispanic, and Native American groups have been forced to wear. Finally, Lyman reflects on the innovative ways of speaking, writing, and acting forged by the revival of race consciousness and offers a perspective on how to understand more constructively the major African-American literary and social critics
1 online resource (viii, 398 pages)
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Pt. 1. Robert E. Park, American Civil Society, and the Race Question. 1. Civilization, Culture, and Color: Changing Foundations of Robert E. Park's Sociology of Race Relations. 2. Park and Realpolitik: Race, Culture, and Modern Warfare. 3. Robert E. Park's Congo Papers: A Gothic Perspective on Capitalism and Imperialism
pt. 2. Interracial Contacts: History, Sociology, Imagery. 4. Memory, Forgetfulness; History, Integration: Hansen's Law of "Third Generation Interest" and the Race Question. 5. Slavery and Sloth: A Study in Race and Morality. 6. Race, Sex, and Servitude: Images of Blacks in American Cinema
pt. 3. Asian Peoples in America. 7. Stewart Culin: The Earliest American Chinatown Studies and a Hypothesis about Pre-Columbian Migration. 8. The Chinese Diaspora in America, 1850-1943. 9. Contrasts in the Community Organization of Chinese and Japanese in North America. 10. Generation and Character: The Case of the Japanese Americans. 11. Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Amerinds: Confronting Vestiges of Slavery
pt. 4. Assimilation, Pluralism, and the Postmodern Challenge. 12. Between Ecriture and Thymos: Dilemmas and Contradictions of Racial, Ethnic, and Minority Cultural Expression in the Twenty-first Century
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