...in 1915 argued against the "melting pot" method of establishing a nation of immigrants.76 He wrote, "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their wives, their religions, their philosophies: they cannot change their grandfathers, Jews or Poles or Anglo-Saxons. Jews or Poles or Anglo-Saxons,...

...autonomy of his group." Anticipating some of today's most prominent communitarians, Kallen asserted, "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...greater or lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers."51 Recasting the ideas of the racialists in a positive light, Kallen insisted that the...

...Kallen contended, an individual's ethnic ties could not be sundered. In a famous statement, Kallen said, "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers." Bourne's "trans-nationalism" differed somewhat from Kallen's cultural pluralism, which, as several...

...throwing it into a crucible, no matter how society may treasure the notion of universal human coinage. "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...their philosophies, to a greater or lesser extent, but they cannot change their grandfathers," Kallen wrote. To strike a balance between ethnic and religious...

...inalienable in the life of mankind is its intrinsic positive quality—its psycho-physical inheritance. Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...their philosophies, to a greater or lesser extent: thev cannot O J change their grandfathers. Jews or Poles or Anglo-Saxons, in order to cease being Jews...

...not forgotten. Even if they had, an unconscious inheritance was still there. People, he insisted, can change "their clothes, their politics, their wives,...their philosophies, to a greater or lesser extent; [but] they cannot change their grandfathers The selfhood which is inalienable in them, and for the...

...be expected to happen very often. As Horace Kallen put it in his famous essay on the "melting pot": "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers." But if I am right about how southern identification works these days, outsiders need not change their...

...biological ancestors. As the philosopher Horace Kallen puts it in a celebrated (if androcentric) phrase, "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their...their religions, their philosophies, to a greater or less extent: they cannot change their grandfathers" (1924, 122). This assumption has recently been...

...replacing America's melting pot ideology with a form of cultural pluralism based on the contention that "men may change their clothes, their politics,...lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers." Kallen, "Democracy versus the Melting Pot," The Nation, February 18 and 25, 1915. 53. One reviewer...

...cultural abjectness gives way to cultural pride.15 And indeed, he argued, this occurs across generations. "Men may change their clothes, their politics, their wives, their religions, their philosophies, but to a greater or lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers."16 According to Kallen, the...