The Fractious Nation? : Unity and Division in Contemporary American Life /

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What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Steinlight, Stephen, Rieder, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States - General.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
Social conflict.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Political culture.
National characteristics, American.
Moral conditions.
Cultural pluralism.
Citizenship > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY.
Diversite culturelle > États-Unis.
Cultural pluralism > United States.
Social conflict > United States.
Citizenship > Social aspects > United States.
Political culture > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1989-
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
United States > Moral conditions.
United States > Politics and government > 1989-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Getting a fix on fragmentation: "breakdown" as estimation error, rhetorical strategy, and organizational accomplishment / Jonathan Rieder
  • The fetish of difference / Richard Berstein
  • Fragments or ties? the defense of difference / Martha Minow
  • The myth of culture war: the disparity between private opinion and public politics / Paul DiMaggio
  • America's Jews: highly fragmented, insufficiently disputatious / Jack Wertheimer
  • Once again, strangers on our shores / Mary C. Waters
  • Expelling newcomers: the eclipse of constitutional community / Cecilia Muñoz
  • The United States in the world community: the limits of national sovereignty / Douglas S. Massey
  • "Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?": narrowing the enduring divisions of race / Jennifer Hochschild
  • The ambivalence of citizenship: African-American intellectuals in search of community / Kevin Gaines
  • Social provision and civic community: beyond fragmentation / Theda Skocpol
  • Stable fragmentation in multicultural America / Paul Starr
  • The moral compassion of true conservatism / John J. DiIulio Jr.
  • Shaking off the past: third ways, fourth ways, and the urgency of politics / E.J. Dionne Jr.
  • Epilogue: Into the unknown: unity and conflict after September 11, 2001 / Jonathan Rieder.

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