The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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Summary: Ideas and their evolution in a multi-ethnic nation
Review: The Protestant Ethnic & The Spirit Of Capitalism by Rey Chow (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at brown University), is a meticulously, scholarly, college-level study of cross-ethnic representational politics in America and recent capitalistic Western cultures. From the coercive practices of keeping races or classes of people "in their place", to the pervasive and enduring social harm of stereotyping, to the conflicted intersection of religious belief and capitalistic self-preservation, The Protestant Ethnic & The Spirit Of Capitalism is an impressively thoughtful and thought-provoking study of fundamental ideas and their evolution in a multi-ethnic nation. Also available in a hardcover edition (0231124201, ...), The Protestant Ethnic & The Spirit Of Capitalism is a seminal and important addition to Ethnic Studies academic reference collections and supplemental reading lists.