The rise and fall of Anglo-America
By: Eric P. Kaufmann.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: WASPs (Persons) -- History.; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.; Political culture -- United States -- History.; United States -- Ethnic relations.; United States -- Politics and government.; United States -- Intellectual life.
Description: "Kaufmann begins his account shortly after independence, when white Protestants with an Anglo-Saxon myth of descent established themselves as the dominant American ethnic group. But from the late 1890s to the 1930s, liberal and cosmopolitan ideological currents within white Anglo-Saxon Protestant America mounted a powerful challenge to WASP hegemony. This struggle against ethnic dominance was mounted not by subaltern immigrant groups but by Anglo-Saxon reformers, notably Jane Addams and John Dewey. It gathered social force by the 1920s, struggling against WASP dominance and achieving institutional breakthrough in the late 1960s, when America truly began to integrate ethnic minorities into mainstream culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-361) and index.