Word: glazer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest book, Professor Emeritus of Education and Sociology Nathan Glazer, a pre-eminent neoconservative scholar, significantly restated his position on multiculturalism and affirmative action, coming to support them in certain cases...
...introductory chapter of We Are All Multiculturalists Now, Glazer wrote, "multiculturalism in education...has, in a word, won. I do not assert this either to sound an alarm over this victory or to celebrate...
...Instead, Glazer cautiously lent his support to the recent movement toward incorporating the histories and cultures of other ethnic groups into elementary and high school curricula...
...While Glazer said that within the multiculturalist movement there "undoubtedly are excesses," he also "embraces the movement wholeheartedly as an inevitable development...
...past books, such as his 1963 Beyond the Melting Pot, written with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan '66 (D-NY) and his 1975 Affirmative Discrimination, Glazer argued tirelessly for a strong presentation of "distinctly American culture" in school and for the assimilation of different ethnic groups into American society...