Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? : : Multicultural Conservatism in America / / Angela D. Dillard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dillard, Angela D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: American History and Culture ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface. The Problem of Definition --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Malcolm X’s Words in Clarence Thomas’s Mouth --; Chapter 2. Toward a Politics of Assimilation --; Chapter 3. “I Write Myself,Therefore I Am” --; Chapter 4. Strange Bedfellows --; Conclusion. A Multicultural Right? Prospects and Pitfalls --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814744079; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814744079.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Angela D. Dillard.

In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. To be an African-American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conservative and a homosexual, is to occupy an awkward and contested political position. Dillard explores the philosophies, politics, and motivation of minority conservatives such as Ward Connerly, Glenn Loury, Linda Chavez, Clarence Thomas, and Bruce Bawer, as well as their tepid reception by both the Left and Right. Welcomed cautiously by the conservative movement, they have also frequently been excoriated by those African Americans, Latinos, women, and homosexuals who view their conservatism as betrayal. Dillard's comprehensive study, among the first to take the history and political implications of multicultural conservatism seriously, is a vital source for understanding contemporary American conservatism in all its forms.