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Challenges of Diversity - Essays on America (Paperback)
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Challenges of Diversity - Essays on America (Paperback)
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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. Challenges of Diversity
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 (e pluribus unum, 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.
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