The good citizen
By: edited by David Batstone and Eduardo Mendieta.
Contributors: Batstone, David B., 1958-; Mendieta, Eduardo.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780415929080
Subjects: Civics; Citizenship -- United States; Political participation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What does it mean to be an American?; title: The moral obligations of living in a democratic society / Cornel West; title: The ethics of polarization in the United States and the world / Robert N. Bellah; title: Virtually democratic: twenty essentials for the citizen in a network society / David Batstone; title: The crime of innocence / Barbara Christian; title: The crisis of values in America: its manipulation by the Right and its invisiblity to the Left / Michael Lerner; title: Race at the end of history / Ronald Takaki; title: Latina/o identity politics / Linda Marti n Alcoff; title: Becoming citizens, becoming Hispanics / Eduardo Mendieta; title: Contagious word: paranoia and "homosexuality" in the military / Judith Butler.