The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National DistinctivenessHarvard University Press, 2000 - 380 من الصفحات The turn of the last century, amid the excesses of the Gilded Age, variety became a key notion for Americans—a sign of national progress and development, reassurance that the modern nation would not fall into monotonous dullness or disorderly chaos. Carrie Tirado Bramen pursues this idea through the works of a wide range of regional and cosmopolitan writers, journalists, theologians, and politicians who rewrote the narrative of American exceptionalism through a celebration of variety. Exploring cultural and institutional spheres ranging from intra-urban walking tours in popular magazines to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, she shows how the rhetoric of variety became naturalized and nationalized as quintessentially American and inherently democratic. By focusing on the uses of the term in the work of William James, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hamlin Garland, and Wong Chin Foo, among many others, Bramen reveals how the perceived innocence and goodness of variety were used to construct contradictory and mutually exclusive visions of modern Americanism. |
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... according to multiple traditions that re- flect its different cultures and institutions . Diversity is a sign of national health rather than a pathological symptom of cultural degeneration ; it promises a dynamic mode of national ...
... according to the terms of globalization , hetero- geneity , and transnationalism . As Frederick Buell has pointed out in " Nationalist Postnationalism , " President Clinton's 1992 campaign in- voked the phrase " global economy , " not ...
... According to one oft - cited prediction , " minorities " will make up 40 percent of the nation's population by 2040. But such forecasts , as Michael Fix and Jeffrey Passel of the Urban Institute have pointed out , are based on the ...
... according to context . Throughout the book I will address two audiences : those interested primarily in the contemporary debates on multiculturalism and those focused more on the historical substance of my argument . These two au ...
... according to this argument , because it gives pleasure to the middle - class , " non - ethnic " urbanite ; it allows her to " transcend " the familiar daytime world of work in order to explore the night - time world of the " other half ...
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William James and the Modern Federal Republic | 29 |
Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism | 67 |
The Uneven Development of American Regionalism | 115 |
The Urban Picturesque and Americanization | 156 |
Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory | 201 |
East Meets West at the Worlds Parliament of Religions | 250 |
In Defense of Partiality | 293 |
Notes | 307 |
337 | |
Acknowledgments | 361 |
365 | |