{"covers": [4825405], "key": "/works/OL864525W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL75310A"}}], "title": "Unmeltable ethnics", "subject_places": ["United States"], "subjects": ["Ethnic attitudes", "Minorities", "Popular culture, united states", "United states, politics and government, 1993-2001", "Attitudes ethniques"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "This new, enlarged edition of an influential book - originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics - extends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim \"is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are?\n\nWhy are you different from others?\" But the point of such inquiry is civility: \"The new ethnic consciousness embodied in this book delights in recognition of subtle differences in the movements of the soul. It is not a call to separatism but to self-consciousness. It does not seek division but rather accurate, mutual appreciation.\"\n\n.\n\nThis new edition contains six new essays by the author, including the acclaimed \"Pluralism: A Humanistic Perspective.\" New, too, is Novak's comprehensive introduction, bringing the argument up to date. Novak describes how and why ethnicity has become a prominent issue in American politics.\n\nHe also sharply denounces the current ideology of \"multiculturalism\" as a disfiguration of genuine ethnicity. \"Multiculturalism is moved by the eros of Narcissus\"; Novak writes, \"the new ethnicity is driven by the eros of unrestricted understanding.\".\n\nThis new edition adds crucial distinctions for those seeking an intelligent path through such current-day mystifications as \"multiculturalism\" and \"diversity .\" Twenty-five years ago, Novak's argument led the way in focusing on families, neighborhoods, and other \"mediating institutions\" of civil society. It is an argument critical to a realistic sense of national community."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T06:01:02.784208"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-29T15:41:09.976395"}}