New at Reason: Michael Moynihan on the Death of Kwanzaa

December 24, 2008

In the days leading up the Christmas, one couldn’t help but notice that references to Kwanzaa, the decades-old African-American holiday that captured so many dull minds during the Great Culture Wars of the 1990s, were almost nonexistent. But while most black studies departments still embrace the balkanizing principles of multiculturalism, writes Michael C. Moynihan, the great majority of African Americans have little interest in dressing up like Jim Brown and lighting candles that symbolize the workers controlling the means of production.

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