Against "Post-Ethnic" Futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7097313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L M Alcoff (0000-0003-4260-3400, corresponding author), Linda Alcoff |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 99-117 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-625X • E-ISSN: 1527-9383 |
| Publisher | Penn State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jsp.2004.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W2084512851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
Where rationality is measured by the ability to distance oneself from one's cultural and religious traditions, the preemptive commitments of ethnicity seem counter to the ideal of a rational life. Arthur Schlesinger's The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society gives a typical account of this view. Schlesinger paints a picture of a past "America" happily moving toward the melting pot that Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, author of the widely read Letters from an American Farmer, thought he could perceive in the 1700s, a United States where individuals were losing their old identities and forming what he called a "new race of men." This marked progress, not simply because a homogeneous nation would be a stronger nation, but because what these individuals left behind included "ancient prejudices and manners," or backward ways of life, clearing the way for them to adopt a more advanced way of life based on democratic ideals (Schlesinger 1991, 1
Ampere · Economics · Ethnic group · Financial economics · Futures contract · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society
Postethnic America
Race and class in the Southwest
The disuniting of America
The Rights of minority cultures
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
Chicano narrative
Tangled Memories
Scents of Wood and Silence
Against race
Under Western Eyes
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Myth, History, and Political Identity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2018 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |