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Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
Walter Benn Michaels
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Paperback. Argues that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has reovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to r4acial identity and asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a for Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFF; JFSL1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America offers both a provocative reinterpretation of the role of identity in modernism and a sustained critique of the role of identity in postmodernism.
“We have a great desire to be supremely American,” Calvin Coolidge wrote in 1924. That desire, Michaels tells us, is at the very heart of American modernism, giving form and substance ... Read more
Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America offers both a provocative reinterpretation of the role of identity in modernism and a sustained critique of the role of identity in postmodernism.
“We have a great desire to be supremely American,” Calvin Coolidge wrote in 1924. That desire, Michaels tells us, is at the very heart of American modernism, giving form and substance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822320647
SKU
V9780822320647
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About Walter Benn Michaels
Walter Benn Michaels is Professor of English and the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.
Reviews for Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
"Unlike so many of his academic colleagues, Michaels has little interest in the effort to design more intricate notions of group identity... Rather, he wishes to jettison those notions altogether... Race, for Michaels, isn't a fact of nature or a social experience; it's an intellectual fallacy. Culture isn't a living tradition or a font of wisdom; it's more like a ... Read more