Culture wars

Reed, Ishmael, ed. 1997. Multi-America Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace. New York Viking. 

Shor, Ira. 1992. Culture Wars School and Society in the Conservative Restoration, 1969-1984. Chicago University of Chicago Press. 

Daniel McClure is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Irvine, and is working on a dissertation entitled, Winter in America Popular Culture, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the Culture Wars, 1968-1982. ... 

Williams, D. (2001). Culture wars in Brazil The first Vargas regime, 1930-1945. Durham/London Duke University Press. 

When in the culture wars of the first half of the twentieth century Bloomsbury came under attack, as it commonly did, its enemy, whether (self-styled) Wyndham Lewis or F.R. Leavis in Scrutiny, or any number of others (including, famously, D. H. Lawrence), might at last be accused,... 

Rick Perlstein, Nixonland The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (New York Simon and Schuster, 2008). For the impact of the culture wars in the 1970s and 1980s see Daniel T. Rodgers, Age of Fracture (Cambridge Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011). 

James Davidson Hunter, Culture Wars The Struggle to Define America (New York Basic Books, 1991), 42-43. Hunter emphasizes that most religious culture warriors are not intellectuals in a formal sense and often lack coherent, clearly articulated, sharply differentiated world views, but that they nonetheless have distinct moral visions. This analysis holds for many engineers in the rank and file in the 1960s. Engineering s reformers and elites, however, were seeking the differentiated world views of the intellectual. 

Hunter, James Davidson. 1991. Culture "Wars The Struggle to Define America. New York Basic Books. 

What led to these enormous cultural differences between the builders of modernity in Europe, America and Russia At the latest when Europe was divided after World War II, but basically beginning with the establishment of the Hitler and Stalin dictatorships, the modernist period came to an end. Whereas at the beginning of the 1930s one could still speak of a more or less homogeneous project which followed quite similar goals and styles in Paris,... 

Thus, of course, the distinction between whiteness and nonwhiteness never fully lost its salience in American political culture. Mexican annexation, black Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow practices, Indian Wars, Asian immigration and Exclusion, Hawaiian and Puerto Rican annexation, and Philippine conquest—all would keep whiteness very much alive in both the visual and the political economies. But upon the arrival of the massive waves of Irish immigrants in the 1840s, whiteness itself would become newly problematic and, in some quarters, would begin to... 

It is against this backdrop that the history of political whiteness took shape and that the fluidity of certain groups racial identities became apparent. The crosscurrents here are terribly complex. The Mexican War, slavery and Emancipation, Reconstruction, Indian wars, anti-Chinese agitation, Pacific expansion, and popular accounts of Pacific, Asian, and African exploration all kept vividly alive the crucial distinction in American political culture dividing white from nonwhite populations, as did... 

The treatment of race in the sciences underwent two fundamental changes in the years between the eugenic triumph of 1924 and the post-World War II period culture eclipsed biology as the prime determinant of the social behavior of races, and race relations displaced character-ology as the major field of racial inquiry. Both of these trends significantly revised the race concept in general, and had especially profound impli-... 

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