| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940–1970. By Richard H. King. (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004. xvi, 398 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8018-8065-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8018-8066-1.)

Richard H. King's history of ideas of prominent intellectuals in Europe and the United States traces their examination of racism and race through three decades. His basic thesis is that "universalism" became consensual soon after World War II, and then in the 1960s "particularism" arose to break down the consensus. Particularism provided a basis for the identity politics that then followed. The confrontation with the Holocaust played a crucial role in the achievement of the temporary consensus, while the question of African American or black culture was fundamental to rising particularisms.

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