TY - BOOK AU - Kevin Macdonald TI - Culture of critique SN - 0759672229 U1 - 305.89 PY - 2002/// CY - USA PB - Kevin Macdonald KW - Jews KW - Jewish Involvement in Shaping US KW - Judaism and the West N2 - MacDonald 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 ER -