How did the Cold War lead to a greater adoption of Civic Nationalism? What avenues for upward mobility and participation or discipline and disassociation did Americans encounter during the 1950s?

Writing Assignment #3

Chapter 6, “The Cold War,
Anticommunism, and a Nation in Flux, 1946-1960,” in Gary Gerstle, American
Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twetnieth Century (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2001).

Gary Gerstle writes the “racial
nationalist tradition declined” during the 1950s, while “its civic nationalist
counterpart added strength” (240). This, Gerstle shows, was due to the “climate
of mounting hysteria” (243) due to the Cold War, which, paradoxically, also
made Civic Nationalism a “less flexbile, and less capacious, creed” (246).

For this assignment, students
will craft a 3–4 page response, properly cited using Chicago format
(i.e. footnotes) that addresses the following question(s):

How did the Cold
War lead to a greater adoption of Civic Nationalism?
What avenues for
upward mobility and participation or discipline and disassociation did
Americans encounter during the 1950s?

In your response, make sure to
briefly discuss the stakes of the Cold War for the United States (use text
citations if necessary). Also, make sure to organize your ideas so that you use
specific examples from the text that speak to either the upward mobility and
participation or the discipline and disassociation that certain Americans
faced. Note: I am asking you to focus on one – discipline or participation;
select whichever you find to be more compelling to capture the ethos of the
1950s.
There are plenty of examples,
just make sure you are organizing your thoughts effectively. Finally, make sure
your writing is clear, concise, and contained; that you are advancing a central
thesis; and that the text is properly cited.

Paper Conventions:
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3-4 pages
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1” margins, double-spaced
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Standard academic fonts (Times, Times New Roman,
or Calibri)
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Properly cited using Chicago Style
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Access this link if you need help, see the
footnotes section:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html
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Quality prose and good grammar always help!

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