Rooting Multiculturalism
Shiffman (English, rhetoric, and writing, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia) examines the life and work of Slovenian-born Louis Adamic (1898-1951), a writer, editor, populist historian, and champion of immigrant contributions to the U.S. Coverage includes a chronological description of Adamic's life, from childhood in Slovenia to his death in 1951; Adamic and the emergence of cultural pluralism between the 1910s to 1940s; his rhetoric of social reform; his writing about second-generation immigrants; and his relevance to contemporary multiculturalism. Distributed by Associated U. Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Rooting Multiculturalism
Shiffman (English, rhetoric, and writing, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia) examines the life and work of Slovenian-born Louis Adamic (1898-1951), a writer, editor, populist historian, and champion of immigrant contributions to the U.S. Coverage includes a chronological description of Adamic's life, from childhood in Slovenia to his death in 1951; Adamic and the emergence of cultural pluralism between the 1910s to 1940s; his rhetoric of social reform; his writing about second-generation immigrants; and his relevance to contemporary multiculturalism. Distributed by Associated U. Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Rooting Multiculturalism

Rooting Multiculturalism

by Dan Shiffman
Rooting Multiculturalism

Rooting Multiculturalism

by Dan Shiffman

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Shiffman (English, rhetoric, and writing, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia) examines the life and work of Slovenian-born Louis Adamic (1898-1951), a writer, editor, populist historian, and champion of immigrant contributions to the U.S. Coverage includes a chronological description of Adamic's life, from childhood in Slovenia to his death in 1951; Adamic and the emergence of cultural pluralism between the 1910s to 1940s; his rhetoric of social reform; his writing about second-generation immigrants; and his relevance to contemporary multiculturalism. Distributed by Associated U. Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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ISBN-13: 9780838644263
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication date: 10/01/2003
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 254 KB

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments9
Introduction13
1.An Immigrant's Journey through the American Jungle26
2.Adamic and the Emergence of Cultural Pluralism between the Wars67
3.From Class to Conscience: Adamic's Rhetoric of Social Reform97
4.The "Problem" of the Second-Generation Immigrant126
5.A More Inclusive Multiculturalism142
Notes166
Works Cited180
Index186
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