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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18. With closing of mass immigration, period from 1930s to early 1960s saw a strong consolidation of Consensus America.
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19. Consolation of Consensus furthered by assimilation but also shared national experiences: Depression, WWII, Cold War.
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20. Mid-century Consensus America bolstered also by national broadcast media (radio, TV) and Hollywood under the thumb of the Code.
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21. Magazines like Time and Life were perhaps the chief ideological organs for Consensus America.
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22. In consensus America everyone watched Ozzie & Harriet, read Time, was a liberal Republican or a Conservative Democrat.
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23. In 1960s Consensus America fell apart, torn by rising demands from women, gays, and Blacks not just for power but for representation
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24. 1960s break-up of Consensus America paralleled by rise of alternative press and post-Code Hollywood
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25. Reagan/Bush/Bush cultural politics was a failed attempt to restore a national consensus that 1960s had torn asunder.
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26. Reaganite cultural warriors were often Cold War Liberals nostalgic for 1950s consensus: Reagan himself, Allan Bloom, Bennett.
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