| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness. By Carrie Tirado Bramen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 380 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-00308-X.)

In The Uses of Variety, Carrie Tirado Bramen stakes a refreshing claim to what she calls "modern variety," offering it as an object lesson for postmodern multiculturalists. Derived from careful readings of a range of writers who countered creeping late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century standardization with the promise of diversity, Bramen's portrait of modern variety questions current intellectual trends that capitulate to corporate capitalist commodifications of cultural difference, offer nonconfrontational inclusiveness to combat it, or fail to embrace a dialectic of particularity and commonality. . . .

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