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Cultural gifts: American liberals, childhood, and the origins of multiculturalism, 1924--1939.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cultural gifts: American liberals, childhood, and the origins of multiculturalism, 1924--1939./
Author:	Selig, Diana Marcia.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2001,
Description:	478 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A, page: 7300.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-02A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3044677
ISBN:	9780493585550

Cultural gifts: American liberals, childhood, and the origins of multiculturalism, 1924--1939.
Selig, Diana Marcia.

Cultural gifts: American liberals, childhood, and the origins of multiculturalism, 1924--1939. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2001 - 478 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A, page: 7300.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

Multicultural education, often seen as a late twentieth-century phenomenon, had its roots eighty years ago in efforts to teach tolerance to children. While nativist and racist trends revived after World War I, a counter-trend also emerged. Beginning in the mid-1920s, thousands of citizens took part in programs designed to celebrate the "cultural gifts" that ethnoracial and religious groups brought to American life. Antiprejudice activities found their way into schools, child study groups, and churches across the country.

ISBN: 9780493585550Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

Cultural gifts: American liberals, childhood, and the origins of multiculturalism, 1924--1939.
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520 $a The post-World War I years provided fertile ground for experimentation in antiprejudice training. The progressive trend in social science challenged scientific racism, while the behaviorist orientation of the emerging child study movement highlighted the process of social conditioning. New ideas about race and childhood intersected in the then startling conclusion that racial prejudice was not innate, as had been thought, but rather was learned---and could be unlearned---in the early years of life. The implications of this insight were far-reaching, for if prejudice was acquired in childhood, then it could be dispelled in childhood as well. Liberal thinkers, who understood prejudice as a problem of ignorance, were optimistic that it would be eradicated through information and proper conditioning in the early years of life.
520 $a This dissertation traces the strategies, successes, and limitations of the antiprejudice crusades in America between the world wars. It contends that the trend towards cultural pluralism was more widespread than historians have usually acknowledged. Pluralism was not confined to intellectual debate and scholarly mobilization, for liberal thinkers applied their ideas on a practical level as well, creating a significant social and cultural phenomenon that shaped the understanding of ethnoracial difference in interwar America and set the stage for later efforts. As it brought together new ideas about social science, child development, and racial difference, the concept of cultural gifts offered liberal Americans a way to explain ethnoracial diversity and forecast today's debates over multicultural education and ethnic studies. With the pluralist vision again ascendant, historians are now in a position to take note of its long history and to survey its earlier cultural and social manifestations.
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