Summary
Sociologist, coauthor with Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Beyond the Melting Pot (1963) and author of Affirmative Discrimination (1975), whom Feldman treats, with Norman Podhoretz, as forging a reactionary color blindness in defence of meritocracy and of Israel (A Shadow over Palestine, lines 295-301, 641-649).
Details
- Beyond the Melting Pot, of which Glazer was the primary author and architect, theorised race to function like ethnicity and positioned Black people as deficient against properly assimilable European Jews (lines 295-297).
- His 1964 essay “Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism” registered demands shifting from equality of opportunity to equality of results (line 301).
- In Affirmative Discrimination (1975) he argued universalist inclusion now embraced “all humanity, without tests of race, color, national origin, religion, or language,” so race-conscious remedies reified racial categories (line 641).
- In “The Exposed American Jew” (1975) he held Jews were 3 percent of the national population but as much as 20 percent of teaching and administrative positions, called for unconditional public support for Israel, and described Israel as “an open, democratic society with an almost unparalleled measure of social justice and with a remarkably good treatment of its Arab minority” (line 647).
Related pages
A Shadow over Palestine, Daniel P. Moynihan, Norman Podhoretz, Racial liberalism