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Many Voices, Many Opportunities: Cultural Pluralism & American Arts Policy
What is American culture? In Many Voices, Many Opportunities, Clement Alexander Price, Professor of American and Afro-American history at Rutgers University, provides a fresh, historical, fair-minded view of this hotly-argued question. Focusing on arts policy, one of the primary battlegrounds of the multiculturalism controversy, Many Voices, Many Opportunities convinces us that "the swirling debate about the history of American culture and its present character is quite unlike anything in American life since the early years of the civil rights movement."
Many Voices, Many Opportunities traces the ideas of cultural pluralism back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when such figures as W. E. B. DuBois asserted that American diversity, rather than creating a harmonious "melting pot," actually brought about struggles among ethnic and racial groups for equal recognition in American culture and the arts. Dr. Price argues for a pluralistic approach to culture and for a definition of national culture that is dynamic rather than rigid. He concludes that we need to change our perception of cultural and artistic worth if cultural pluralism is to succeed.
Many Voices, Many Opportunities traces the ideas of cultural pluralism back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when such figures as W. E. B. DuBois asserted that American diversity, rather than creating a harmonious "melting pot," actually brought about struggles among ethnic and racial groups for equal recognition in American culture and the arts. Dr. Price argues for a pluralistic approach to culture and for a definition of national culture that is dynamic rather than rigid. He concludes that we need to change our perception of cultural and artistic worth if cultural pluralism is to succeed.
96 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1994
About the author
Clement Alexander Price
7 books2 followersAuthor and educator Clement Alexander Price was the official historian for the city of Newark as well as a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
The following is from the U.S. Senate Congressional Record as entered by Senator Cory Booker:
"The foremost authority on the history of African Americans in New Jersey, Clement Alexander Price was born in 1945 in Washington, D.C., to James Price, Sr. and Anna Christine Spann Price. He inherited his love of history from his parents, and since then instilled in generations this love for history. After earning his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Bridgeport, Clem came to Newark to teach at Essex Community College. He earned his Ph.D. at Rutgers University, became a professor at Rutgers University-Newark, and founded the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience."
The following is from the U.S. Senate Congressional Record as entered by Senator Cory Booker:
"The foremost authority on the history of African Americans in New Jersey, Clement Alexander Price was born in 1945 in Washington, D.C., to James Price, Sr. and Anna Christine Spann Price. He inherited his love of history from his parents, and since then instilled in generations this love for history. After earning his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Bridgeport, Clem came to Newark to teach at Essex Community College. He earned his Ph.D. at Rutgers University, became a professor at Rutgers University-Newark, and founded the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience."
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