As I have shown throughout this website, the turn to “cultural history” or “multiculturalism” marked a sea change in the writing of American history. But few have traced the intellectual history of multiculturalism. I attribute this to an upper-class “moderate” response to movements from below. Here are a few of the blogs I have written that trace this widespread social pedagogy to its origins in the reaction of German Romantics to the “mechanical materialists” of the earlier 18th century French Enlightenment.
http://clarespark.com/2010/07/04/pacifica-radio-and-the-progressive-movement/
http://clarespark.com/2009/10/31/the-offing-of-martin-luther-king-jr-and-ralph-bunche/
http://clarespark.com/2009/09/06/the-hebraic-american-landscape-sublime-or-despotic/ (quotes Herman Melville’s White-Jacket)
http://clarespark.com/2010/04/08/racism-modernity-modernism/.
http://clarespark.com/2010/07/18/white-elite-enabling-of-black-power/
http://clarespark.com/2010/07/20/german-romantic-predecessors-to-multiculturalism/
http://clarespark.com/2010/10/18/the-dialectic-of-multiculturalism-helvetius-herder-fichte/.
http://clarespark.com/2010/04/12/multiculturalismethnopluralism-in-the-mid-20th-century/.
http://clarespark.com/2010/05/13/the-new-gay-flappers/
http://clarespark.com/2011/03/06/groupiness/.
http://clarespark.com/2011/09/08/getting-down-with-tom-wolfe/.
http://clarespark.com/2011/03/26/race-class-and-gender/.
http://clarespark.com/2011/02/11/undoing-multiculturalism/
http://clarespark.com/2011/12/15/gingrich-and-the-socially-constructed-nation-state/ (on Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft as defined by Toennies)
http://clarespark.com/2012/02/09/glee-goes-la-raza/
http://clarespark.com/2012/03/31/nell-painters-history-of-white-people/.
http://clarespark.com/2013/02/27/american-exceptionalism-retold/ (Read this first!)
http://clarespark.com/2013/11/05/kerry-washington-scandal-and-miscegenation/
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