The Fractious Nation? [electronic resource] : Unity and Division in Contemporary American Life
Rieder, Jonathan.
Steinlight, Stephen.
Berkeley, [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press,
c2003.
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 and the time of unity that followed is much too stark, indeed. Less than a year before two planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the 2000 presidential election produced not just the starkly blue and red electoral map but also the two tribal Americas those totemic colors emblaz
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Fractious Nation?; 1. Getting a Fix on Fragmentation: "Breakdown" as Estimation Error, Rhetorical Strategy, and Organizational Accomplishment; PART I: Moral Unity, Moral Division; 2. The Fetish of Difference; 3. Fragments or Ties? The Defense of Difference; 4. The Myth of Culture War: The Disparity between Private Opinion and Public Politics; 5. America's Jews: Highly Fragmented, Insufficiently Disputatious; PART II: Refiguring the Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Immigration, and National Belonging; 6. Once Again, Strangers on Our Shores
7. Expelling Newcomers: The Eclipse of Constitutional Community8. The United States in the World Community: The Limits of National Sovereignty; 9. "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?": Narrowing the Enduring Divisions of Race; 10. The Ambivalence of Citizenship: African-American Intellectuals in Search of Community; PART III: Unity and Division in the Political Realm; 11. Social Provision and Civic Community: Beyond Fragmentation; 12. Stable Fragmentation in Multicultural America; 13. The Moral Compassion of True Conservatism
14. Shaking Off the Past: Third Ways, Fourth Ways, and the Urgency of PoliticsEpilogue: Into the Unknown: Unity and Conflict after September 11, 2001; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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 and the time of unity that followed is much too stark, indeed. Less than a year before two planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the 2000 presidential election produced not just the starkly blue and red electoral map but also the two tribal Americas those totemic colors emblaz
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Citizenship.
National characteristics, American.
Pluralism (Social sciences).
Political culture.
Political culture - United States.
Social conflict.
United States - Politics and government - 1989-.
National characteristics, American
Political culture
Citizenship
Social conflict
Cultural pluralism
Regions & Countries - Americas
History & Archaeology
United States - General