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Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of culture --- United States --- Cultural pluralism --- Multiculturalism --- Diversité culturelle --- Multiculturalisme --- Etats-Unis --- Race relations. --- Ethnic relations. --- Relations raciales --- Relations interethniques --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- -Pluralism (Social sciences) --- -Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Government policy --- Race question --- -Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Diversité culturelle --- United States of America

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The role played by the humanities in reconciling American diversity--a diversity of both ideas and peoples--is not always appreciated. This volume of essays, commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, examines that role in the half century after World War II, when exceptional prosperity and population growth, coupled with America's expanded political interaction with the world abroad, presented American higher education with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The humanities proved to be the site for important efforts to incorporate groups and doctrines that had once been excluded from the American cultural conversation. Edited and introduced by David Hollinger, this volume explores the interaction between the humanities and demographic changes in the university, including the link between external changes and the rise of new academic specializations in area and other interdisciplinary studies. This volume analyzes the evolution of humanities disciplines and institutions, examines the conditions and intellectual climate in which they operate, and assesses the role and value of the humanities in society.

Demography --- Education --- Multicultural education --- Learning and scholarship --- Learned institutions and societies --- Humanities --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Academies (Learned societies) --- Learned societies --- Scholarly societies --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Classical education --- Intercultural education --- Culturally relevant pedagogy --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Intellectual life --- Research --- Scholars --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- History --- Demographic aspects --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Culturally sustaining pedagogy --- Multicultural education History --- Multicultural education 20th century --- 20th century --- Multicultural education United States --- United States --- Learning and scholarship History --- Learning and scholarship 20th century --- Learning and scholarship United States --- Learned institutions and societies History --- Learned institutions and societies 20th century --- Learned institutions and societies United States --- Humanities History --- Humanities 20th century --- Humanities United States --- Humanities Study and teaching (Higher)

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They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists.David A. Hollinger provides riveting portraits of such figures as Pearl Buck, John Hersey, and Life and Time publisher Henry Luce, former "mish kids" who strove through literature and journalism to convince white Americans of the humanity of other peoples. Hollinger describes how the U.S. government's need for citizens with language skills and direct experience in Asian societies catapulted dozens of missionary-connected individuals into prominent roles in intelligence and diplomacy. Meanwhile, Edwin Reischauer and other scholars with missionary backgrounds led the growth of Foreign Area Studies in universities during the Cold War. The missionary contingent advocated multiculturalism and anticolonialism, pushed their churches in ecumenical and social-activist directions, and joined with Jewish intellectuals to challenge traditional Protestant cultural hegemony and promote a pluralist vision of American life. Missionary cosmopolitans were the Anglo-Protestant counterparts of the New York Jewish intelligentsia of the same era.Protestants Abroad reveals the crucial role that missionary-connected American Protestants played in the development of modern American liberalism, and how they helped other Americans reimagine their nation's place in the world.

Protestant churches --- Missions, American --- Missions --- History. --- United States. --- A Book Of. --- Adviser. --- African Americans. --- Americans. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Arabs. --- Area studies. --- Baptists. --- British Empire. --- Buddhism. --- Career. --- Chiang Kai-shek. --- China Hands. --- China. --- China–United States relations. --- Christian mission. --- Christianity in China. --- Christianity. --- Church World Service. --- Colonial empire. --- Colonialism. --- Congregational church. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Cultural imperialism. --- E. Stanley Jones. --- Ecumenism. --- Edgar Snow. --- Filipinos. --- Foreign Service Officer. --- Foreign policy of the United States. --- Foreign policy. --- Frank Laubach. --- Furlough. --- Harold Isaacs. --- Harvard University. --- Henry Luce. --- Imperialism. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Institute of Pacific Relations. --- J. (newspaper). --- James C. Thomson, Jr. --- Jews. --- John F. Kennedy. --- John Foster Dulles. --- John Hersey. --- John K. Fairbank. --- John Leighton Stuart. --- John S. Service. --- Kenneth Scott Latourette. --- Kuomintang. --- Latin America. --- Lecture. --- Literacy. --- Lucian Pye. --- Lutheranism. --- Mao Zedong. --- Margaret Landon. --- Mennonite. --- Methodism. --- Missionary (LDS Church). --- Missionary. --- National Council of Churches. --- Nationalist government. --- Office of Strategic Services. --- On China. --- Orientalism. --- Owen Lattimore. --- Paganism. --- Peace Corps. --- Philosopher. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Prejudice. --- Presbyterianism. --- Protestantism. --- Racism. --- Religion. --- Secularism. --- Secularization. --- Social Gospel. --- Southeast Asia. --- Student Volunteer Movement. --- Superiority (short story). --- Thailand. --- The Christian Century. --- The New York Times. --- Theology. --- United States Department of State. --- W. E. B. Du Bois. --- Walter Judd (politician). --- White supremacy. --- Whittaker Chambers. --- William Ernest Hocking. --- World Council of Churches. --- World War II. --- World history. --- Writing. --- Yale Divinity School. --- Yale University. --- Zionism.

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This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range of scientific and cultural enterprises. Focusing on the decades from the 1930s through the 1960s, David Hollinger discusses the scientists, social scientists, philosophers, and historians who fought the Christian biases that had kept Jews from fully participating in American intellectual life. Today social critics take for granted the comparatively open outlook developed by these men (and men they were, mostly), and charge that their cosmopolitanism was not sufficiently multicultural. Yet Hollinger shows that the liberal cosmopolitans of the mid-century generation defined themselves against the realities of their own time: McCarthyism, Nazi and Communist doctrines, a legacy of anti-Semitic "as, and both Protestant and Catholic versions of the notion of a "Christian America." The victory of liberal cosmopolitans was so sweeping by the 1960s that it has become easy to forget the strength of the enemies they fought.Most books addressing the emergence of Jewish intellectuals celebrate an illustrious cohort of literary figures based in New York City. But the pieces collected here explore the long-postponed acceptance of Jewish immigrants in a variety of settings, especially the social science and humanities faculties of major universities scattered across the country. Hollinger acknowledges the limited, rather parochial sense of "mankind" that informed some mid-century thinking, but he also inspires in the reader an appreciation for the integrationist aspirations of a society truly striving toward equality. His cast of characters includes Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Richard Hofstadter, Robert K. Merton, Lionel Trilling, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Secularism --- Science --- Jews --- History --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- United States. --- United States --- United States --- Ethnic relations. --- Intellectual life --- Academic freedom, disputes over. --- African-Americans. --- Anderson, Sherwood. --- Anti-Semitism. --- Asian-Americans. --- Benedict, Ruth. --- Blumenberg, Hans. --- Boulding, Kenneth. --- Bush, Vannevar. --- Catholics and Catholicism. --- Coffin, Henry Sloan. --- Cook, William W. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Cowley, Malcolm. --- Davis, Chandler. --- De-Christianization. --- Dos Passos, John. --- Edel, Abraham. --- Enlightenment, traditions of. --- Ethical Culture Society. --- Fairchild, Harold Pratt. --- Feminism. --- Foucault, Michel. --- Frankfurter, Felix. --- Gadamer, Hans-Georg. --- Haber, William. --- Herskovitz, Melville. --- Hiss, Alger. --- Hook, Sidney. --- Immigration. --- Irvine, James. --- Judaism. --- Kaempffert, Waldemar. --- Klein, Lawrence. --- Lazarsfeld, Paul. --- Lippmann, Walter. --- Markert, Clement. --- Miller, Warren. --- Nashville Agrarians. --- National Science Foundation. --- Noyes, Alfred. --- Pluralism, academic. --- Pragmatism. --- Price, Derek. --- Reichenbach, Hans. --- Schleiermacher, Freidrich. --- Shils, Edward. --- Spingarn, Joel. --- Terman, Lewis. --- Tyndall, John. --- Universalism. --- Vetter, Jan.