Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America (eBook)
246 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-936-2 (ISBN)
This work analyzes the New Ethnicity of the 1970s as a way of understanding Americas political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of vocal ethnic consciousness among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Southern and Eastern Europeans, the New Ethnicity simultaneously challenged and emulated earlier identity movements such as Black Power.The movement was more complex than the historical memory of racist, reactionary white ethnic leaders suggests. The movement began with a significant grassroots effort to gain more social welfare assistance for near poor white ethnic neighborhoods and ease tensions between the working-class African Americans and whites who lived in close proximity to one another in urban neighborhoods. At the same time, a more militant strain of white ethnicity was created by urban leaders who sought conflict with minorities and liberals.The reassertion of ethnicity necessarily involved the invention of myths, symbols, and traditions, and this process actually served to retard the progressive strain of New Ethnicity and strengthen the position of reactionary leaders and New Right politicians who hoped to encourage racial discord and dismantle social welfare programs. Public intellectuals created a mythical white ethnic who shunned welfare, valued the family, and provided an antidote to liberal elitism and neighborhood breakdown. Corporations and publishers embraced this invented ethnic identity and codified it through consumption. Finally, politicians appropriated the rhetoric of the New Ethnicity while ignoring its demands. The image of hard-working, self-sufficient ethnics who took care of their own neighborhood problems became powerful currency in their effort to create racial division and dismantle New Deal and Great Society protections.
Richard Moss is assistant professor of history at Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1—The Path to the New EthnicityChapter 2—“Is This Any Way For Nice Ethnic Boys to Behave?” The Blue-Collar Origins of the New EthnicityChapter 3—Instincts, Feelings, and Intimacies: The Intellectual Consolidation of the New EthnicityChapter 4—“I’m a Practical Guy Who Wants to Live in a City That Gives People of All Kinds a Chance to Share”: The Struggle for the Progressive New EthnicityChapter 5—Consuming Roots: Popular Culture Representations of the New EthnicityChapter 6—“Let Them Do For Themselves Like We Do!”: The Right’s Appropriation of the New EthnicityConclusion—“Loose Cannons,” Reagan Democrats, and LegaciesBibliography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.3.2017 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | American History • History • Political Science • Race and Ethnic Studies • Sociology |
ISBN-10 | 1-61147-936-3 / 1611479363 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61147-936-2 / 9781611479362 |
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