Tensions in the American Dream : Rhetoric, Reverie, or Reality /

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"Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The authors consider the origins and develop...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bush, Melanie E. L., 1955-
Other Authors: Bush, Roderick D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social mobility.
Marginality, Social.
American Dream.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Rêve americain.
Mobilite sociale > États-Unis.
Marginality, Social > United States.
Social mobility > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Key Questions and Concepts
  • Citizenship and Nation
  • The Shifting Terrain Makes Clear the Tensions in the American Dream
  • Part II. Stories of my America
  • Reflections on the Structural Logic of the System
  • Thoughts on the Current Juncture
  • Perspectives on the American Dream
  • Expressions of Revolt against the Systems
  • Part III. Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie or Reality?
  • Nation: Empire or Liberation
  • Racial Nationalism and the Multiple Crises of the U.S. Nation
  • Going Forward, with Reflections on the Revolts of the Past Decade.

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