Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States

Contents

Contents Preface ix 1 Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States 3 2 The One Drop Rule and the One Hate Rule 39 3 The Historian’s Use of the United States and Vice Versa 57 4 Money and Academic Freedom a Half-Century after McCarthyism: Universities amid the Force Fields of Capital 77 5 Enough Already: Universities Do Not Need More Christianity 106 6 The Enlightenment and the Genealogy of Cultural Conflict in the United States 120 7 Why Are Jews Preeminent in Science and Scholarship? The Veblen Thesis Reconsidered 135 8 Rich, Powerful, and Smart: Jewish Overrepresentation Should Be Explained Instead of Avoided or Mystified 154 9 Cultural Relativism 166 Notes 187 Index 209 vii ...