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An American Friendship - Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Hardcover)
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An American Friendship - Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Hardcover)
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In An American Friendship, David Weinfeld presents the biography of
an idea, cultural pluralism, the intellectual precursor to modern
multiculturalism. He roots its origins in the friendship between
two philosophers, Jewish immigrant Horace Kallen and African
American Alain Locke, who advanced cultural pluralism in opposition
to both racist nativism and the assimilationist "melting pot." It
is a simple idea-different ethnic groups can and should coexist in
the United States, perpetuating their cultures for the betterment
of the country as whole-and it grew out of the lived experience of
this friendship between two remarkable individuals. Kallen, a
founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research,
became a leading American Zionist. Locke, the first Black Rhodes
Scholar, taught at Howard University and is best known as the
intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance and the editor of
The New Negro in 1925. Their friendship began at Harvard and Oxford
during the years 1906 through 1908 and was rekindled during the
Great Depression, growing stronger until Locke's death in 1954. To
Locke and Kallen, friendship itself was a metaphor for cultural
pluralism, exemplified by people who found common ground while
appreciating each other's differences. Weinfeld demonstrates how
this understanding of cultural pluralism offers a new vision for
diverse societies across the globe. An American Friendship provides
critical background for understanding the conflicts over identity
politics that polarize US society today.
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