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SUMMARY:Deploying Race against Assimilation: Horace Kallen Confronts Jews and America
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 Presenter: Matthew Kaufman, Department of Religious 
 Studies, MSU\n
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 One of the most pressing 
 questions for America in the first two decades 
 of the twentieth century was the question 
 of how to assimilate the millions of immigrants 
 into American society. The classic symbol 
 of the "melting pot" was created at this time. 
 Horace Kallen, an American Jewish philosopher 
 who coined the term "cultural pluralism," 
 felt a profound need to counter assimilationist 
 trends in American Jewish society, and vigorously 
 defended a racialized view of Jewish 
 culture to promote an inclusive and pluralist 
 social vision. Through an analysis of Kallen's 
 racial ideas and his confrontations in the 
 press, Kaufman will show how early twentieth 
 century race science functioned as a tool for 
 an academic to compete with rabbis for social 
 and cultural authority. Co-sponsored by the 
 Department of Religious Studies.\n
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 Price: free and open to the public\n
 Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://events.msu.edu/jewishstudies/\n
 Contact name: Jewish Studies\n
 Contact phone: (517) 432-3493\n
 Contact email: jewishst@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Wells Hall B-342
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