From Americanization to Multiculturalism: Political Symbols and Struggles for Cultural Diversity in Twentieth-Century American Race Relations

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis J. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
American Race Relations

Hoernlé, Reinhold Friedrich Alfred (1880–1943)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Sweet
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
South African ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Systematic Philosophy ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
Progressive Force

Perhaps the best known of South African philosophers, Hoernlé was a member of the generation of students influenced by the early British idealists, such as Green, Caird, Bradley, and Bosanquet. Like many of his contemporaries, Hoernlé left Britain to pursue his career in some of the universities of the Empire, providing an opportunity for fruitful contact between the main currents of European philosophy and the cultures and traditions of his adopted country. Hoernlé sought to provide a systematic philosophy that could be applied to questions of social and public policy as well as politics. His position responds to trends in continental European philosophy and addresses some of the criticisms of idealism raised in the early twentieth century by Russell, Schiller, and the American ‘new realists’. Hoernlé’s most significant contribution, however, was in the application of liberal political thought to the multiethnic environment of South Africa. Although Hoernlé’s liberalism has been criticized for not providing an effective alternative to the then-current race relations in South Africa, in his time he was seen by many as a strong progressive force, and his analysis of pluralism and cultural diversity in the state bears on contemporary discussions of multiculturalism.

scholarly journals The Local versus the Global in the history of relativity: The case of Belgium

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-250
Author(s):  
Sjang L. ten Hagen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
First World War ◽  
Global History ◽  
World War ◽  
Global Pattern ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
First World

ArgumentThis article contributes to a global history of relativity, by exploring how Einstein’s theory was appropriated in Belgium. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, yet the early-twentieth-century Belgian context, because of its cultural diversity and reflectiveness of global conditions (the principal example being the First World War), proves well-suited to expose transnational flows and patterns in the global history of relativity. The attempts of Belgian physicist Théophile de Donder to contribute to relativity physics during the 1910s and 1920s illustrate the role of the war in shaping the transnational networks through which relativity circulated. The local attitudes of conservative Belgian Catholic scientists and philosophers, who denied that relativity was philosophically significant, exemplify a global pattern: while critics of relativity feared to become marginalized by the scientific, political, and cultural revolutions that Einstein and his theory were taken to represent, supporters sympathized with these revolutions.

Jovita Gonzalez Stakes a Claim in Tejas History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen R. Roybal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

This chapter examines the short story, "Shades of the Tenth Muses," the novel, Caballero: A Historical Novel, and a master's thesis – each narrative written by Tejana folklorist and author, Jovita González – to reveal how she contributed to an alternative archive about the Texas/Mexico borderlands. As a member of the Texas folklore society, González participated alongside what were considered prominent Texas folklorists and historians (mainly Anglo males) of the twentieth century, in an effort to (re)tell her own version of Tejano history. The chapter argues that González uses her literary and academic work to create an alternative archive about gender and race relations along the Texas/Mexico border in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work contributes to an ever-growing body of Chicana/o work that recuperates Mexicana/o cultural memory.

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