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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... arguing that " Western civilization " can appeal to an increasingly diverse student body ( " black or white , Asian or Hispanic , rich or poor " ) through its " universality " and its " uniqueness . " Such a tradition , based on the ...
... argue , are important factors that have to be included in such fore- casts . Latinos , for example , have the ... argument goes , all Americans are homoge- nized according to the consumer habits of shopping . Like Appiah , Russell Jacoby ...
... argument . These two au- diences frequently intersect . My premise is that we cannot understand the self - evidential nature of American diversity in contemporary multi- culturalism without turning to the end of the nineteenth century ...
... 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 , " where she can ...
... argument , namely the invisibility of labor ? Diversity is located in the eating rather than the cooking ( or the serving ) of food . Both examples of American diversity — Young's " unoppressive city " and Stiehm's taco stand — are ...
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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 |
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Acknowledgments | 361 |
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