Americans All
The Cultural Gifts Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10044548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Kroes (Amsterdam University of the Arts), Diana Selig |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 261 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27694837 |
| OpenAlex | W2003637066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
This timely book takes us back to the interwar origins of contemporary debates in the United States over ethnic studies and multicultural education. It is a welcome antidote given the current rise of anti-immigration sentiment and renewed fears of “strangers in the land.” Others, such as the novelist Philip Roth, revisit the 1930s in a different mood, imagining a fascist outcome of nativist fears resulting in the creation of a government Office of American Absorption, forcibly imposing a hegemonic reading of Americanism on America's immigrant population. As Diana Selig points out, there were such temptations of European fascism at work in the United States, but her focus is on countertrends, those that promoted a vision of tolerance and acceptance of ethnic and cultural diversity in the United States. Most of us think of multiculturalism as a late twentieth-century phenomenon, an outgrowth of 1960s liberalism and the ethnic pride movement of the 1970s. Some scholars have traced it back to the World War II and Cold War years. But Selig pushes the origins of contemporary multiculturalism back to the social and cultural ferment following World War I
Diversity (politics · Ethnic group · Hegemony · Immigration · Multiculturalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Pride · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Sight-Seeing in School
Jean Lagassé, Community Development, and the “Indian and Métis Problem” in Manitoba in the 1950s–60s
Development of Programs and a Career in Intercultural Education
Snap Shots
Education and the Culture Wars
Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?
Society on the Edge
"Education for Citizenship in a Bi-Racial Civilization" Black Teachers and the Social Construction of Race, 1929-1954
Making the Discriminating Mind
Pedagogical Progressivism and Black Education
John Dewey and the New Left, 1960-1988
A really big theme’
Bring the World to the Child
Family Separation and Lives in Limbo
Introduction
The World Day of Prayer
Now Where Do We Go from Here?” Separateness, Integration, and Pluralism in Philadelphia
Teaching “Americanism with a World Perspective”
Immigrant Education and Race
From “Wops and Dagoes and Hunkies” to “Caucasian”
Gateways to the West, Part II
Welland Ontario’s Springfield Plan
Was There Really a Social Efficiency Doctrine? The Uses and Abuses of an Idea in Educational History
Dewey’s “Science as Method” a Century Later
Between Fact and Emotion
The Higher Education Generation
Before the Federal Bilingual Education Act
The tradition of classroom deliberation and the evasion of racial justice as a social issue, 1916–1966
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |