From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to
protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by
the state has been a subject of considerable interest and
controversy throughout the history of the United States. The
subject continues to be important in many countries. This book
deals with state responses to cultural difference through the
examination of a number of encounters between individuals, groups,
and the state, in the United States and elsewhere. The book opens
the concepts of groups and the state, arguing for the complexity of
their relations and interpenetrations.
Carol Weisbrod draws on richly diverse historical and cultural
material to explore various structures that have been seen as
appropriate for adjusting relations between states and internal
groups. She considers the experience of the Mormons, the Amish, and
Native Americans in the United States, the Mennonites in Germany,
and the Jews in Russia to illustrate arrangements and
accommodations in different times and places. The Minorities
Treaties of the League of Nations, political federalism, religious
exemptions, nonstate schools, and rules about adoption are among
the mechanisms discussed that sustain cultural difference and
create frameworks for group life, and, finally, individual life. At
bottom, "Emblems of Pluralism" concerns not only relations between
the state and groups, public and private, but also issues of
identity and relations between the self and others.
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