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Author Weinfeld, David, 1982- author.

Title An American friendship : Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the development of cultural pluralism / David Weinfeld
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages)
Contents Introduction: What difference does the difference make? Cultural pluralism as friendship -- From Berenstadt to Boston -- The talented among the tenth -- Locke and Kallen, student and teacher -- American pluralists, friends at Oxford -- The Plural is political -- Plural in culture, universal in religion -- Friendship rekindled, pluralism refined -- Locke's legacy, Kallen's memory -- Conclusion: Differences made
Summary "An American Friendship narrates the development of cultural pluralism, an idea that emerged in the early twentieth century to explain and shape American diversity, as told through the unlikely friendship of two philosophers, Jewish immigrant and Zionist leader Horace Kallen, and African American Alain Locke, intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis identity politics, origins of multiculturalism, zionism in the harlem renaissance, black-jewish relations, American pragmatist philosophers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2022)
Subject Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 -- Influence
Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 -- Influence
SUBJECT Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 -- Influence
Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 -- Influence
Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 fast
Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 fast
Subject Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Jewish
Cultural pluralism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021052350
ISBN 9781501763113
1501763113
9781501763106
1501763105