Nathan Glazer
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Nathan Glazer is an American
sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley
and for several decades at Harvard University
. He is a former co-editor of the now-defunct (but once highly influential) policy journal The Public Interest
.
Known for books like Beyond the Melting Pot which deal with race and ethnicity, Glazer was critical of some of the Great Society
programs of the mid-1960s and is often considered neoconservative in his thinking on domestic policy, though he remained a Democrat
. Glazer has described himself as "indifferent" to the neoconservative label with which he is arguably most associated, and also remarked that it was an appellation not of his choosing.
in New York City. His parents, working class Polish
immigrants, spoke Yiddish in the home, and his father was a sewing machine operator. His older brother, Joe
, would eventually become an acclaimed folk musician who specialized in labor and radical themed songs. Glazer attended public school as a child and eventually the City College of New York
. At the time, the early 1940s, CCNY was known as a hotbed of radicalism, and Glazer fell in with a number of other young Marxists who were hostile to Soviet-style communism. Glazer, Irving Howe
, Daniel Bell
, and Irving Kristol
would meet in an alcove of the CCNY cafeteria and "spen[d] their days feverishly trying to understand how the socialist ideal of political and economic justice had ended in Joseph Stalin
’s murderous tyranny."
As Glazer would later recall, "one of the characteristics of [our] group was a notion of its universal competence...culture, politics, whatever was happening we shot our mouths off on...It was a model created by the arrogance that if you’re a Marxist you can understand anything and it was a model that even as we gave up our Marxism we nevertheless stuck with." Looking back years later Irving Kristol would remark that "even at City, [Glazer] was never much of a radical."
, and only mildly criticized Joseph McCarthy
when writing of him in the magazine Commentary
.
Looking back at the McCarthy era over 40 years later as an interviewee in the film Arguing the World, Glazer reflected on the stance he and some other liberal anti-communists took: "Even at the time and also in retrospect we never managed to figure out a good position, one that was respectable and moral and responsive to all the complicated issues raised...I still don't think we have one." In general much of Glazer's work in the 1950s had strong strains of patriotism and optimism about the future, including a belief that the overwhelming majority of immigrants would come to identify completely with American values and thus assimilate into American society.
In 1960 Glazer began writing articles about ethnic groups in New York City, and these would eventually be collected and published in 1963 as the book Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City, arguably Glazer's most well-known work. While Daniel Patrick Moynihan
was listed as co-author, and the book itself would often be referred to as "Moynihan and Glazer", Moynihan wrote only the chapter on the Irish and much of the conclusion, with the rest being the work of Glazer.
In essence, as one retrospective noted 25 years later, Glazer and Moynihan suggested that "the melting pot metaphor didn't hold water." The book argued that the children and grandchildren of earlier immigrants to New York City, including Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish, had retained their ethnic consciousness and that the phenomenon of persistent ethnic identities over the course of generations would continue to endure. This conclusion was fairly novel for the early 1960s, a time when there was relatively little interest in studying ethnic groups.
Glazer and Moynihan also argued that the "disproportionate presence of Negroes and Puerto Ricans on welfare" was one of the primary racial problems in the city, though they suggested the 1970s could end up being a "decade of optimism" for those two groups. Years later when marking the 25th anniversary of the book, Glazer would admit that the 1970s (and indeed later years) had not brought significant change for these groups, and that many African Americans and Puerto Ricans remained members of the "great dependent class." James Traub
has argued that Beyond the Melting Pot was "one of the most popular, and most influential, works of sociology of its time."
presidency Glazer worked in the Housing and Home Finance Agency, predecessor to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and in Lyndon Johnson's administration he was a consultant with the Model Cities Program
. By this time Glazer was becoming skeptical of the War on Poverty
and of Washington-based reform efforts in general. As he would argue years later in his book The Limits of Social Policy, Great Society
programs were not really the answer because "the breakdown of traditional modes of behavior is the chief cause of our social problems" and he did not think that breakdown could be addressed by government. Glazer's view was an example of the culture of poverty
arguments that were gaining traction by the mid-1960s as explanations for social inequalities (Moynihan's influential, if controversial, The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
, was perhaps the most prominent work in this vein).
By 1964 Glazer was teaching at UC-Berkeley and he bore witness to the famous Free Speech Movement
that year. Despite his earlier experience as a student radical, Glazer was one of many professors who viewed the student protesters as extremists. Even in the late 1990s Glazer continued to condemn the students' "enthusiastic and euphoric rejection of forms and norms," and in 2005 he pointed out that the revolts at Berkeley, Columbia University
, and many other campuses constituted "a disorder that made no sense to those of us who had come from harder circumstances." One leader of the FSM, Jackie Goldberg
, reflecting back on 1964 years later decried Glazer and his ilk for espousing "an armchair intellectual liberalism" and viewing "protesting" as nothing more than sending a letter to one's congressman.
As the Free Speech Movement raged in Berkeley, Glazer's friends from City College Daniel Bell
and Irving Kristol
were discussing founding a new journal, which would come to be called The Public Interest
when it debuted in 1965. A conference essay by Glazer, "Paradoxes of American Poverty," would appear in the journal's first issue. In the summer of 1973 he succeeded Bell, becoming co-editor along with Kristol, a post which he held until 2003. When The Public Interest ceased publication in 2005, Glazer wrote a piece acknowledging the rightward drift on the part of the journal over the years and the tendency it had to publish far more conservative than liberal pieces, something which he saw "as a failing on our part."
In 1969 Glazer began a long teaching career at Harvard after being awarded one of five positions created to focus on the problems of the cities.
was now the dominant ethic in public schools, while "assimilation" had become a dirty word. For Glazer it was a simple reality which could not be denied, but he remained deeply ambivalent about multiculturalism, arguing that it "is not a phase we can embrace wholeheartedly, and I hope my own sense of regret that we have come to this will not escape the reader."
Writing in what one commentator deemed a "rueful" tone, he suggested his earlier arguments regarding issues like affirmative action and the future prospects for African Americans were essentially wrong—the civil rights legislation of 1964
and 1965
had not allowed blacks to fully integrate into American society, their situation was worse now than it had been 20 years before, and a multicultural curriculum in schools was essentially the result.
The book was heavily criticized by conservatives, with Dinesh D'Souza
accusing Glazer of "cowardice" in a review in The Weekly Standard
, while a critique in National Review
suggested Glazer was wrongly advocating for "resignation and accommodation" to multiculturalism rather than the "forthright opposition in defense of our constitutional republic and its liberal-democratic virtues" that was needed. James Traub, on the other hand, argued that "Glazer is still the neoconservative who wrote The Limits of Social Policy," but that his "own logic leaves him with nothing to offer—except the admittedly specious comforts of multiculturalism."
As the term "neoconservative" became common parlance during the administration of president George W. Bush
, Glazer pointed out that it had been "hijacked" and now meant something quite different than it once had. According to Glazer, "in its early application, in the 1970s, it referred to the growing caution and skepticism among a group of liberals about the effects of social programs. It was later applied to a vigorous and expansionist democracy-promoting military and foreign policy, especially in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union." In a 2003 letter to The New York Times Glazer argued that "there is very little connection between those called "neoconservatives" 30 years ago and neoconservatives today, who are defined entirely by their hard stance on foreign and military policy."
Glazer's most recent book is the 2007 publication From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter With the American City, an essay collection "that traces the diminishment of Modernist architecture from a social revolution — which asserted that traditional architecture 'had come to an end' — down to a mere style, and one almost universally resented outside the profession."
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sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
and for several decades at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. He is a former co-editor of the now-defunct (but once highly influential) policy journal The Public Interest
The Public Interest
The Public Interest was a quarterly public policy journal founded by established New York intellectuals Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol in 1965. It was a leading neoconservative journal on political economy and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars, and policy makers...
.
Known for books like Beyond the Melting Pot which deal with race and ethnicity, Glazer was critical of some of the Great Society
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States promoted by President Lyndon B. Johnson and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice...
programs of the mid-1960s and is often considered neoconservative in his thinking on domestic policy, though he remained a Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
. Glazer has described himself as "indifferent" to the neoconservative label with which he is arguably most associated, and also remarked that it was an appellation not of his choosing.
Early life
Glazer grew up in East Harlem and the East BronxEast Bronx
The East Bronx is that part of the New York City borough of the Bronx which lies east of the Bronx River; this roughly corresponds to the eastern half of the borough...
in New York City. His parents, working class Polish
Poles
thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...
immigrants, spoke Yiddish in the home, and his father was a sewing machine operator. His older brother, Joe
Joe Glazer
Joe Glazer , closely associated with labor unions and often referred to as the "labor's troubadour," was a US-American folk musician who recorded more than thirty albums over the course of his career....
, would eventually become an acclaimed folk musician who specialized in labor and radical themed songs. Glazer attended public school as a child and eventually the City College of New York
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
. At the time, the early 1940s, CCNY was known as a hotbed of radicalism, and Glazer fell in with a number of other young Marxists who were hostile to Soviet-style communism. Glazer, Irving Howe
Irving Howe
Irving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Life and career:...
, Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism...
, and Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism"...
would meet in an alcove of the CCNY cafeteria and "spen[d] their days feverishly trying to understand how the socialist ideal of political and economic justice had ended in Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
’s murderous tyranny."
As Glazer would later recall, "one of the characteristics of [our] group was a notion of its universal competence...culture, politics, whatever was happening we shot our mouths off on...It was a model created by the arrogance that if you’re a Marxist you can understand anything and it was a model that even as we gave up our Marxism we nevertheless stuck with." Looking back years later Irving Kristol would remark that "even at City, [Glazer] was never much of a radical."
Early postwar career
World War II led to a belief among some of the CCNY leftists, including Glazer, that fascism was a greater threat than capitalism, and that the United States, as a country that fought the fascists, ought to be viewed more favorably. Glazer became a member of the anti-communist leftAnti-Stalinist left
The anti-Stalinist left is an element of left-wing politics that is critical of Joseph Stalin's policies and the political system that developed in the Soviet Union under his rule...
, and only mildly criticized Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...
when writing of him in the magazine Commentary
Commentary (magazine)
Commentary is a monthly American magazine on politics, Judaism, social and cultural issues. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945. By 1960 its editor was Norman Podhoretz, a liberal at the time who moved sharply to the right in the 1970s and 1980s becoming a strong voice for the...
.
Looking back at the McCarthy era over 40 years later as an interviewee in the film Arguing the World, Glazer reflected on the stance he and some other liberal anti-communists took: "Even at the time and also in retrospect we never managed to figure out a good position, one that was respectable and moral and responsive to all the complicated issues raised...I still don't think we have one." In general much of Glazer's work in the 1950s had strong strains of patriotism and optimism about the future, including a belief that the overwhelming majority of immigrants would come to identify completely with American values and thus assimilate into American society.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
was listed as co-author, and the book itself would often be referred to as "Moynihan and Glazer", Moynihan wrote only the chapter on the Irish and much of the conclusion, with the rest being the work of Glazer.
In essence, as one retrospective noted 25 years later, Glazer and Moynihan suggested that "the melting pot metaphor didn't hold water." The book argued that the children and grandchildren of earlier immigrants to New York City, including Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish, had retained their ethnic consciousness and that the phenomenon of persistent ethnic identities over the course of generations would continue to endure. This conclusion was fairly novel for the early 1960s, a time when there was relatively little interest in studying ethnic groups.
Glazer and Moynihan also argued that the "disproportionate presence of Negroes and Puerto Ricans on welfare" was one of the primary racial problems in the city, though they suggested the 1970s could end up being a "decade of optimism" for those two groups. Years later when marking the 25th anniversary of the book, Glazer would admit that the 1970s (and indeed later years) had not brought significant change for these groups, and that many African Americans and Puerto Ricans remained members of the "great dependent class." James Traub
James Traub
James Traub, born in 1954, is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has also written for The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review and Foreign Affairs...
has argued that Beyond the Melting Pot was "one of the most popular, and most influential, works of sociology of its time."
Government service, academia, and The Public Interest
During Kennedy'sJohn F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
presidency Glazer worked in the Housing and Home Finance Agency, predecessor to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and in Lyndon Johnson's administration he was a consultant with the Model Cities Program
Model Cities Program
The Model Cities Program was an element of United States President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty. The ambitious federal urban aid program ultimately fell short of its goals....
. By this time Glazer was becoming skeptical of the War on Poverty
War on Poverty
The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent...
and of Washington-based reform efforts in general. As he would argue years later in his book The Limits of Social Policy, Great Society
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States promoted by President Lyndon B. Johnson and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice...
programs were not really the answer because "the breakdown of traditional modes of behavior is the chief cause of our social problems" and he did not think that breakdown could be addressed by government. Glazer's view was an example of the culture of poverty
Culture of poverty
The culture of poverty is a social theory that expands on the cycle of poverty. Proponents of this theory argue that the poor are not simply lacking resources, but also have a unique value system...
arguments that were gaining traction by the mid-1960s as explanations for social inequalities (Moynihan's influential, if controversial, The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, also known as the Moynihan Report was written by then-sociologist and later U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and released in 1965...
, was perhaps the most prominent work in this vein).
By 1964 Glazer was teaching at UC-Berkeley and he bore witness to the famous Free Speech Movement
Free Speech Movement
The Free Speech Movement was a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and...
that year. Despite his earlier experience as a student radical, Glazer was one of many professors who viewed the student protesters as extremists. Even in the late 1990s Glazer continued to condemn the students' "enthusiastic and euphoric rejection of forms and norms," and in 2005 he pointed out that the revolts at Berkeley, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, and many other campuses constituted "a disorder that made no sense to those of us who had come from harder circumstances." One leader of the FSM, Jackie Goldberg
Jackie Goldberg
Jackie Goldberg is an American politician and teacher, and a member of the Democratic Party. She is a former member of the California State Assembly....
, reflecting back on 1964 years later decried Glazer and his ilk for espousing "an armchair intellectual liberalism" and viewing "protesting" as nothing more than sending a letter to one's congressman.
As the Free Speech Movement raged in Berkeley, Glazer's friends from City College Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism...
and Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism"...
were discussing founding a new journal, which would come to be called The Public Interest
The Public Interest
The Public Interest was a quarterly public policy journal founded by established New York intellectuals Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol in 1965. It was a leading neoconservative journal on political economy and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars, and policy makers...
when it debuted in 1965. A conference essay by Glazer, "Paradoxes of American Poverty," would appear in the journal's first issue. In the summer of 1973 he succeeded Bell, becoming co-editor along with Kristol, a post which he held until 2003. When The Public Interest ceased publication in 2005, Glazer wrote a piece acknowledging the rightward drift on the part of the journal over the years and the tendency it had to publish far more conservative than liberal pieces, something which he saw "as a failing on our part."
In 1969 Glazer began a long teaching career at Harvard after being awarded one of five positions created to focus on the problems of the cities.
Later career
Glazer continued to publish books on race and ethnicity throughout the 1980s and 1990s. We Are All Multiculturalists Now, published in 1997, perhaps created the biggest stir. In it Glazer argued that multiculturalismMulticulturalism
Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...
was now the dominant ethic in public schools, while "assimilation" had become a dirty word. For Glazer it was a simple reality which could not be denied, but he remained deeply ambivalent about multiculturalism, arguing that it "is not a phase we can embrace wholeheartedly, and I hope my own sense of regret that we have come to this will not escape the reader."
Writing in what one commentator deemed a "rueful" tone, he suggested his earlier arguments regarding issues like affirmative action and the future prospects for African Americans were essentially wrong—the civil rights legislation of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation...
and 1965
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S....
had not allowed blacks to fully integrate into American society, their situation was worse now than it had been 20 years before, and a multicultural curriculum in schools was essentially the result.
The book was heavily criticized by conservatives, with Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh D'Souza is an author and public speaker and a former Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is currently the President of The King's College in New York City. D'Souza is a noted Christian apologist and conservative writer and speaker....
accusing Glazer of "cowardice" in a review in The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...
, while a critique in National Review
National Review
National Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the...
suggested Glazer was wrongly advocating for "resignation and accommodation" to multiculturalism rather than the "forthright opposition in defense of our constitutional republic and its liberal-democratic virtues" that was needed. James Traub, on the other hand, argued that "Glazer is still the neoconservative who wrote The Limits of Social Policy," but that his "own logic leaves him with nothing to offer—except the admittedly specious comforts of multiculturalism."
As the term "neoconservative" became common parlance during the administration of president George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
, Glazer pointed out that it had been "hijacked" and now meant something quite different than it once had. According to Glazer, "in its early application, in the 1970s, it referred to the growing caution and skepticism among a group of liberals about the effects of social programs. It was later applied to a vigorous and expansionist democracy-promoting military and foreign policy, especially in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union." In a 2003 letter to The New York Times Glazer argued that "there is very little connection between those called "neoconservatives" 30 years ago and neoconservatives today, who are defined entirely by their hard stance on foreign and military policy."
Glazer's most recent book is the 2007 publication From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter With the American City, an essay collection "that traces the diminishment of Modernist architecture from a social revolution — which asserted that traditional architecture 'had come to an end' — down to a mere style, and one almost universally resented outside the profession."
Books
- The lonely crowd; a study of the changing American character (with David RiesmanDavid RiesmanDavid Riesman , was a sociologist, attorney, and educator....
and Reuel DenneyReuel DenneyReuel Denney was an American poet and academic.-Life:Denney grew up in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932. He taught at the University of Chicago...
) New Haven, Yale University PressYale University PressYale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
1950 Studies in national policy #3 - Faces in the crowd; individual studies in character and politics, (with David Riesman) New Haven, Yale University Press, 1952 Studies in national policy #4
- A new look at the Rosenberg-Sobell case. New York, Tamiment Institute 1953
- American Judaism, Chicago, University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago PressThe University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including Critical Inquiry, and a wide array of...
, 1957 - Studies in housing & minority groups (with Davis McEntire) Berkeley: University of California PressUniversity of California PressUniversity of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
, 1960 - The social basis of American communism New York, Harcourt, Brace 1961 (Communism in American life)
- Negroes & Jews: the new challenge to pluralism New York : American Jewish CommitteeAmerican Jewish CommitteeThe American Jewish Committee was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world...
1964 - The Characteristics of American Jews New York, Jewish Education Committee Press 1965
- The Many faces of anti-semitism New York, American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations 1967
- Soviet Jewry, 1969: [papers and presentations] New York; Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, 1969
- Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City (with Daniel P. Moynihan), Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology PressMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, 1963, second expanded edition 1970 - Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University PressHarvard University PressHarvard University Press is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Its current director is William P...
, 1975 - Ethnicity: Theory and Experience (ed., with Daniel P. Moynihan) Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1975
- Prejudice Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1982
- Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982 Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1985
- The Limits of Social Policy Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1988
- We Are All Multiculturalists Now Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1997
- From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City, Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press-Further reading:* "". Artforum International, 2005.-External links:* * * * *...
, 2007
See also
- NeoconservatismNeoconservatismNeoconservatism in the United States is a branch of American conservatism. Since 2001, neoconservatism has been associated with democracy promotion, that is with assisting movements for democracy, in some cases by economic sanctions or military action....
- Culture of povertyCulture of povertyThe culture of poverty is a social theory that expands on the cycle of poverty. Proponents of this theory argue that the poor are not simply lacking resources, but also have a unique value system...
- Irving HoweIrving HoweIrving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Life and career:...
- Daniel BellDaniel BellDaniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism...
- Irving KristolIrving KristolIrving Kristol was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism"...
- Norman PodhoretzNorman PodhoretzNorman B. Podhoretz is an American neoconservative pundit and writer for Commentary magazine.-Early life:The son of Julius and Helen Podhoretz, Jewish immigrants from the Central European region of Galicia, Podhoretz was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn...
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
External links
- Arguing the World, web site of a PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
documentary film about Glazer, Bell, Howe, and Kristol