Word: assimilationism
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Many of us forget that Hanukkah celebrates the revolt of Jews who rejected assimilation, and tore down the alien symbols from their temple. Hanukkah is not a holiday that fits well with Master Dowling's vision of "celebrating together," or the quaint image of Hanukkah candles next to a Christmas...
The huddled masses have already given way to the muddled masses. "Marriage is the main assimilator," says Karen Stephenson, an anthropologist at UCLA. "If you really want to affect change, it's through marriage and child rearing." This is not assimilation in the Eurocentric sense of the word: one nation...
These sentiments recall a judgment voiced in a New York Times editorial: "There is a limit to our powers of assimilation, and when it is exceeded the country suffers from something very like indigestion." That observation was not made recently, however, but in May 1880, when anti-immigrant sentiment was...
This is race talk, the explicit insertion into everyday life of racial signs and symbols that have no meaning other than pressing African Americans to the lowest level of the racial hierarchy. Popular culture, shaped by film, theater, advertising, the press, television and literature, is heavily engaged in race talk...
The story is not new. From the time Chinese Forty-Niners joined the California Gold Rush, Asians have tended to see America in terms of the old Cantonese name for San Francisco: Gao Gam Saan (Old Gold Mountain), or a land of economic opportunity above all. Nativist harassment of the...