1. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1991);
2. Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italian, and Irish of New York City, 2nd ed. (Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 1970);
3. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990);
4. Todd Gitlin, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked with Culture Wars (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995).