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Identity and the Failure of America : From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror /
From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America's self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfra...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2008.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The failure of America and the claims of identity -- Jefferson's headache: race and the failure of a benevolent republic -- Ahab's cannibals: vicissitudes of command and the failure of manly virtue -- Lydia Maria Child's romance: cosmopolitan imagination and the failure of gender reform -- John Brown's identities: Nat Turner and the fear of just deserts -- Emerson's activism: the trials and tribulations of an American citizen -- Douglass's cosmopolitanism: American empire and the failure of diplomatic representation -- American identities and global terror. | |
| 520 | |a From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America's self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfranchisement, violence, and prejudice. In Identity and the Failure of America, John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightfu. | ||
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