Americans want it both ways. They are committed to cultural diversity, yet demand an endless variety of cheap consumer goods from a global system that destroys distinct ways of life. In this groundbreaking work, David Steigerwald argues that Americans have papered over this paradox by embracing the rhetoric of diversity and multiculturalism, which hides the extent to which they have accepted homogenized ways of working and living.

Preface: The Follies of Cultural Determinism in an Age of Anti-Culture
Chapter 1: On the Rise of Cultural Determinism in an Age of Anti-Culture
Chapter 2: The Misappropriation of Culture in the Contemporary Mind
Chapter 3: Work and Culture
Chapter 4: Culture and Identity
Chapter 5: Race and Culture
Chapter 6: How the Left Got Cultured
Chapter 7: The Virtues of Cosmopolitanism, Complexity, and Taste