Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America

Notes

Notes notes to the preface 1.The film did well at the box office but took a critical beating. Daniel J. Leab, From Sambo to Superspade: The Black Experience in Motion Pictures (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976), 230–232. 2. Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1955). In line with this “consensus school,” see also Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition (New York: Knopf, 1948), and Daniel J. Boorstin, The Genius of American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953). 3. Russell Kirk, “Introduction,” The Portable Conservative Reader (New York: Penguin, 1982), xv–xviii. 4. For a good representation of the southern conservative defense of slavery with particularly strong overtones of paternalism, see George Fitzhugh, Sociology of the South, or the Failures of a Free Society (Richmond,Va.: A. Morris, 1854), and his Cannibals All! or Slaves without Masters (1857; Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1960). 5. “The Southern Manifesto: Declaration of Constitutional Principles,” Cong. Rec., 84th Congress., 2nd sess. (March 12, 1956).This is not to suggest that all uses of States’ Rights are ipso facto racist, only that the doctrine has been put to racist uses from time to time. On the nuances of the doctrine and its relationship to the development of conservative ideologies, see Eugene Genovese, The SouthernTradition :The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism (Cambridge, Mass.: 183 Harvard University Press, 1994); and Dan T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996). 6. Susan Au Allen quoted in Lan Nguyen,“An Inconvenient Woman,” A Magazine , March 31, 1998. 7. A number of texts have dealt with the difficulties of defining neoconservatism .Among the best are James Q.Wilson’s foreword to Mark Gerson, ed., The Essential Neoconservative Reader (Reading, Mass.:Addison-Wesley, 1996), and Irving Kristol’s Neoconservatism:The Autobiography of an Idea (NewYork: Free Press, 1995). On how neocons fit in with the rest of the Right see ErnestVan Den Haag,“The War between Paleos and Neos,” National Review 41:3 (February 24, 1989): 21–23; Dan Himmelfarb,“Conservative Splits,” Commentary 85:5 (May 1988): 54–58; and Russell Kirk, The Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species, Heritage Foundation Lectures, #178 (Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 1988): 1–10. 8. David A. Horowitz, Beyond Left and Right: Insurgency and the Establishment (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1997). For the other side of this debate, see Norberto Bobbio,Left and Right:The Significance of a Political Distinction,translated and introduced by Allan Cameron (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). Bobbio places the distinction in an international context and draws heavily on European (especially Italian) experiences with radicalism, liberalism, and conservatism. 9.Weyrich quoted in Richard A.Viguerie, The New Right:We’re Ready to Lead (Falls Church,Va.:Viguerie Company, 1980), 59. notes to the introduction 1. Dan T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race and the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), xiv. 2. See for example Arnold Hirsch, “Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago, 1953–1966,” Journal of American History 82 (September 1995): 522–550; Thomas J. Sugrue, “Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940–1964,” Journal of American History 82 (September 1995): 551–578;Alan Brinkley,“The Problem of American Conservatism,” American Historical Review 99 (April 1994): 409–429; Michael Kazin, “The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism,” American Historical Review 97 (February 1992): 136–155; and Nancy McLean, “White Women and Klan Violence in the 1920s: Agency, Complicity and the Politics of Women’s History,” Gender & History 3 (Autumn 1991): 285–303. 3.While this lack of attention is less surprising with regard to African American , Latino, and gay conservatives, especially in older works, the virtual wall of silence with regard to conservative women is more startling. Even books that do attempt to incorporate women conservatives take a fairly slipshod approach. See, for Notes to the Preface 184 example, the paltry offerings by conservative women in Russell Kirk, ed., The Portable Conservative Reader (NewYork: Penguin, 1982), Part 15. Other classic studies , such as Clinton Rossiter, Conservatism in America: The Thankless Persuasion (NewYork: Knopf, 1962), andWilliam F. Buckley, Jr., American ConservativeThought in the Twentieth Century (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970), ignore the contributions of women and minorities. Even Eugene Genovese’s The Southern...