01318nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200170008810000200010524500240012526000310014930000280018036500140020852008170022265000110103965000370105065000250108720251206112930.0221221b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0759672229  cAL  aeng  a305.89bMACC  aKevin Macdonald  aCulture of critique  aUSAbKevin Macdonaldc2002  alxxiv,466pbPBc23x15cm  2Sociology  aMacDonald provides a theoretical analysis and review of data on the widespread tendency among Jewish-dominated intellectual movements to develop radical critiques of gentile culture. These movements are viewed as the outcome of the fact that Jews and gentiles have different interests in the construction of culture and in various public policy issues (e.g. immigration policy, Israel). Several of these Jewish movements attempt to combat anti-Semitism by advocating social categorization processes in which the Jew/gentile distinction is minimized in importance.
Jewish policy was aimed at developing an America charcaterized by cultural pluralism and populated by groups of people from all parts of the world rather than by a homogeneous White Christian culture populated largely by people of European descent.  aJews    aJewish Involvement in Shaping US  aJudaism and the West