By Eric P. KAUFMANN

ISBN-10: 0674013034

ISBN-13: 9780674013032

As the 2000 census resoundingly established, the Anglo-Protestant ethnic middle of the USA has all yet dissolved. In a rustic based and settled through their ancestors, British Protestants now make up under a 5th of the inhabitants. This demographic shift has spawned a "culture conflict" inside white the USA. whereas liberals search to diversify society towards a sophisticated endpoint, a few conservatives try to keep up an American ethno-national identification. Eric Kaufmann strains the roots of this tradition struggle from the increase of WASP the US after the Revolution to its fall within the Nineteen Sixties, whilst social associations ultimately started to mirror the nation's ethnic composition.

Kaufmann starts his account presently after independence, while white Protestants with an Anglo-Saxon fantasy of descent validated themselves because the dominant American ethnic staff. yet from the past due Nineties to the Thirties, liberal and cosmopolitan ideological currents inside of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant the US fastened a robust problem to WASP hegemony. This fight opposed to ethnic dominance used to be fastened no longer by means of subaltern immigrant teams yet by means of Anglo-Saxon reformers, particularly Jane Addams and John Dewey. It collected social strength through the Twenties, suffering opposed to WASP dominance and attaining institutional leap forward within the overdue Nineteen Sixties, whilst the USA really started to combine ethnic minorities into mainstream culture.

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