Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814719398)

The first comparative analysis of minority conservatism

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.

Author: Angela D. Dillard
ISBN-10: 0814719392
ISBN-13: 9780814719398
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2001
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/04/2001 pg. 12
Women's Review of Books 10/01/2001 pg. 15
Choice 10/01/2001 pg. 388
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 52