Ethnocultural Political Analysis
A New Approach to American Ethnic Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5783545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert P Swierenga (Kent State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-79 |
| Publication date | 1971-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8758 • E-ISSN: 1469-5154 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002187580000061x |
| OpenAlex | W2169500791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 76 |
At the seventy-ninth annual meeting of the American Historical Association in 1964, a panel of scholars enlivened one of the sessions with a heated debate over the effects of ethnic assimilation in American culture. The topic of debate, 'Beyond the Melting Pot: Irish and Jewish Separateness in American Society', focused on a recent controversial study of ethnic mixture in New York City by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, both sociologists. Glazer and Moynihan in their book Beyond the Melting Pot traced the 'role of ethnicity' in the seaboard city. The melting pot 'did not happen', they concluded, 'at least not in New York and, mutatis mutandis , in those parts of America which resemble New York'. This frontal assault on the concept of Americanization, long a cherished ideal in the United States, drew a sharp reaction from several panellists, especially William V. Shannon, editorial writer for die New York Times and author of The American Irish , and Irving Greenberg, professor of history at Yeshiva University. Both Shannon and Greenberg insisted that Irishmen and Jews had indeed been assimilated in American society, either for better or for worse. At this point, the discussion degenerated into the traditional moralistic debate on the merits and demerits of assimilation. Reflecting the divergent views of their colleagues in the history profession, Shannon praised assimilation and Greenberg condemned it
Americanization · Assimilation (phonology · Ethnic group · Irish · Melting pot · Ninth · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
The Open University and Urban History
Issues, Voter Choice, and Critical Elections
The White Working Class and a Strategy of Coalition for Social Development
Middle-Class Voters and Progressive Reform
Who's In and Who's Out
The Ethnocultural Model of Voting
Group Cohesion and Social and Ideological Conflict
Stratification and Community Political Systems
The cross of culture
The American party systems
Strangers in the Land Patterns of American Nativism 1800-1925
Ethnic patterns in American cities.
Essays in American Historiography. Papers Presented in Honor of Allan Nevins
Freedom and control in modern society
Assimilation in American life
The German Element in the United States, with special Reference to its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence
Refugees of Revolution
The Immigrant in American History
The Cultural Approach to History
The Irish and Irish Politicians
American Ethnic Politics
The Immigrant Upraised. Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America
A House for All Peoples
Immigrants and Politics. The Germans of Nebraska, 1880-1900
Norwegian Settlement in the United States
Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860
Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age
German Culture in America
The German Element and the Issues of the Civil War
American Voting Behavior
Finnish Immigrants in America, 1880-1920
American Historians and European Immigrants 1875-1925
"California Populism and the "System of 1896
The Intellectuals and McCarthy
The Hyphenate in Recent American Politics and Diplomacy
Contadini in Chicago
A House for all Peoples
Forging a Majority
Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln
Prelates and Peasants
Northern Voters and Negro Suffrage
Ethnic and Group Voting in Nonpartisan Municipal Elections
Catholic Voters and the Democratic Party
Netherlanders in America
The Irish in America
The Age of Industrialism in America
Religion and Social Conflict
The Italian in America
The Greeks in the United States
Majority Tyranny in Tocqueville's America
The Social Analysis of American Political History, 1880-1920
The Conservative Reformers
Netherlanders in America
Immigrants and Politics
Quantification in American History
The Development and Persistence of Ethnic Voting
Ethnic Politics and the Persistence of Ethnic Identification
The American Party Systems
Immigration and American History
Religion and Social Conflict
The Significance of Immigration in American History
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2016 (44) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |