Glazer, Nathan

(1923– ) sociologist; born in New York City. A faculty member at Harvard's Graduate School of Education (1968), he wrote widely on contemporary American society, at first from a Zionist and socialist perspective, and after the 1960s as a neoconservative. His books include the classics The Lonely Crowd (with David Riesman, 1950) and Beyond the Melting Pot (coauthored, 1963, later revised) and a controversial work opposing affirmative action, Affirmative Discrimination (1976, later revised).

References in periodicals archive

Glazer, Nathan and Moynihan, Daniel P., Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1970, p.

Glazer, Nathan and Ueda, Reed., Ethnic Groups in History Textbooks., Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1976., (p.

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