{"product_id":"challenges-of-diversity-essays-on-america-paperback-softback-9780813589329","title":"Challenges of Diversity; Essays on America (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813589329","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChallenges of Diversity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWerner Sollors (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813589329\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 October 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e214 pages, 4 color illustrations, 1 figure\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.313 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Tom Socca (Boston Phoenix) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest.\"  \u003c\/div\u003e - David Hollinger (coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook) \u003cdiv\u003e“A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, \u003ci\u003eChallenges of Diversity: Essays on America\u003c\/i\u003e is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e (Midwest Book Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding of ourselves as an Anglo-American nation to a multicultural one and the key role writing has played in that process. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChallenges of Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e contains stories of American myths of arrival (pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, slave ships at Jamestown, steerage passengers at Ellis Island), the powerful rhetoric of egalitarian promise in the Declaration of Independence and the heterogeneous ends to which it has been put, and the recurring tropes of multiculturalism over time (\u003ci\u003ee pluribus unum\u003c\/i\u003e, melting pot, cultural pluralism). Sollors suggests that although the transformation of this settler country into a polyethnic and self-consciously multicultural nation may appear as a story of great progress toward the fulfillment of egalitarian ideals, deepening economic inequality actually exacerbates the divisions among Americans today.   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Introduction 3\u003cbr\u003e 1 Literature and Ethnicity 19\u003cbr\u003e 2 National Identity and Ethnic Diversity 67\u003cbr\u003e 3 Dedicated to a Proposition 95\u003cbr\u003e 4 A Critique of Pure Pluralism 121\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text 145\u003cbr\u003e Notes 177\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 205\u003cbr\u003e Index 207 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563715260696,"sku":"9780813589329","price":26.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/challenges-of-diversity-essays-on-america-paperback-softback-9780813589329","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}