5. Twitter itself is a huge playground of identity fission, where ever more distinct group formations seem to mushroom every time you look
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6. So I think
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7. Not so much in disagreement with Rosenberg but perhaps to augment her argument, a broader historical frame might help.
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8. I'd say since Civil War there has been a tension between Consensus America and Pluralist America.
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9. Obviously after Civil War, there was need for national unity -- and as per Benedict Anderson involves inventing imaginary nation.
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10. Reconstruction was noble but failed (or sabotaged) attempt to create a Consensus America based on Civil Rights.
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11. With failure of Reconstruction (or counterrevolution against it), new Consensus America emerged based on different ideal:white supremacy
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12. But even in White Supremest America pluralist resistance emerged both from Black culture and also surging immigrant communities.
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13. Theodore Roosevelt's melting-pot "Americanism" was attempt to forge new consensus that accommodated immigrants.
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14. But even as TR and Woodrow Wilson created New Nationalism, culture was a real stew of proliferating identities, as witness ethnic press
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15. Immigrant culture--often inflected with Gaelic, Yiddish or German--dominated popular forms like Vaudeville, early movies, comic strips.
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16. Culture Wars of the 1920s were battle between Consensus America and Pluralist America. KKK vs. Harlem Renaissance
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17. In thinking about Consensus America Vs. Pluralist America worth remembering this stuff cuts across left/right divide.
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