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The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915
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The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915
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Overview
Mizruchi approaches this complex development from the perspective of print culture, demonstrating how both popular and elite writers played pivotal roles in articulating the stakes of this national metamorphosis. In a period of widespread literacy, writers assumed a remarkable cultural authority as best-selling works of literature and periodicals reached vast readerships and immigrants could find newspapers and magazines in their native languages. Mizruchi also looks at the work of journalists, photographers, social reformers, intellectuals, and advertisers. Identifying the years between 1865 and 1915 as the founding era of American multiculturalism, Mizruchi provides a historical context that has been overlooked in contemporary debates about race, ethnicity, immigration, and the dynamics of modern capitalist society. Her analysis recuperates a legacy with the potential to both invigorate current battle lines and highlight points of reconciliation.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807887967 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 06/01/2009 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 368 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Remembering Civil War 10
2 Racism as Opportunity in the Reconstruction Era 44
3 Cosmopolitanism 76
4 Indian Sacrifice in an Age of Progress 102
5 Marketing Culture 138
6 Varieties of Work 176
7 Corporate America 213
8 American Utopias 256
Afterword 288
Notes 291
Index 333
What People are Saying About This
Susan Mizruchi interweaves approaches from women's studies, Black studies, and Native American studies into close readings of major and minor figures of American literature to produce an impressively comprehensive study that should be of interest to the scholar of literature as well as to the historian and the sociologist.Werner Sollors, Harvard University
A capacious yet focused and illuminating book. Mizruchi brilliantly shows multiculturalism, capitalism, and literature to be utterly entwined. Smart and persuasive at all turns, the book is full of savvy starting points and sharp contextualizations that will serve teachers as well as scholars.Thomas J. Ferraro, Duke University