Western-civilization panics responded to post-1965 immigration demographics

Evidence

During the 1970s, for every seven Latin- American and Asian immigrants only one Western European came to the United States; during the 1980s, for every six Latin American and Asian immigrants, only one Western European came. The sudden interest in defending or eulogizing Western civilization by such scholars as Alan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind, 1987) and Jacques Barzun (From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present, 2000) was a direct response to these demographic changes. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 78

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: canon wars and ‘Western civ’ defenses as demographic anxiety — reframes the 1980s education debate as immigration politics in disguise.