TY  - BOOK
AU  - Citrin,Jack
AU  - Sears,David O.
TI  - American identity and the politics of multiculturalism
T2  - Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
SN  - 9781139028967 (ebook)
AV  - JV6477 .C59 2014
U1  - 305.800973 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Group identity
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Machine generated contents note: Prologue; 1. The challenge of e pluribus unum; 2. The political psychology of identity choice; 3. Contours of American national identity; 4. The ethnic cauldron and group consciousness; 5. Public opinion and multiculturalism's guiding norms; 6. Do ethnic identities and multiculturalism collide with national identities?; 7. Multicultural policies: ethnic consensus and cleavage; 8. The dynamics of multicultural-policy preferences; 9. Multiculturalism and party politics; 10. Conclusion
N2  - The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum anew, and multiculturalism emerged as a new ideological response to this dilemma. This book uses national public opinion data and public opinion data from Los Angeles to compare ethnic differences in patriotism and ethnic identity and ethnic differences in support for multicultural norms and group-conscious policies. The authors find evidence of strong patriotism among all groups and the classic pattern of assimilation among the new wave of immigrants. They argue that there is a consensus in rejecting harder forms of multiculturalism that insist on group rights but also a widespread acceptance of softer forms that are tolerant of cultural differences and do not challenge norms, such as by insisting on the primacy of English
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139028967
ER  -