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Burkean Social Hierarchy and the Ironic Investment of Martin Luther King: "In the opening decades of the twenty-first century, social demographics will pose their greatest challenge yet to the American culture: the point will be passed when Americans whose ancestors arrived on these shores from Europe will slip from a majority to a plurality. In the time of this great change, Americans will face the need to reinvent power relationships to construct a less graded society drawing life from its rich ethnic and racial mix. To make this future, Americans must begin from a past and present rife with differentiated power. They must confront a long history of racism -- from 250 years of slavery to the internment of Japanese-Americans -- from which they must fashion a multiracial culture. And they must confront the resistance of male and white power in their own time -- documented in the glass ceiling and anti-immigrant agitation -- that must be overcome if a productive and just society is accomplished. Will the American strength -- the diversity of heritage and experience -- be its advantage or its downfall?"

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