American crucible
Subtitle: race and nation in the twentieth century
By: Gary Gerstle.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: National characteristics, American; Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: "This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the "right" ancestry? Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both profoundly shaped our society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER I; title: Theodore Roosevelt's Racialized Nation, 1890-1900; title: A History of the American "Race"; title: War, Renewal, and the Problem of the "Smoked Yankee"; title: Smoked Yk; title: CHAPTER 2; title: Civic Nationalism and Its Contradictions,; title: 1890-1917; title: "True Americanism"; title: Racial Dilemmas; title: The New Nationalism; title: CHAPTER 3; title: Hardening the Boundaries of the Nation, 1917-1929; title: War and Discipline; title: "Keeping Pure the Blood of America"; title: Civic Nationalism in the New Racial Regime; title: Aborting the New Nationalism; title: CHAPTER 4; title: The Rooseveltian Nation Ascendant,; title: 1930-1940; title: A Kinder and Gentler Nation Builder; title: Radicalizing the Civic Nationalist Creed; title: Conservative Counterattack; title: The Survival of Racialized Nationalism; title: CHAPTER 5; title: Good War, Race War, 1941-1945; title: The Good War; title: Race War; title: "Something Drastic Should Be Done": The Military's; title: Hidden Race War; title: Combat and White Male Comradeship; title: CHAPTER 6; title: The Cold War, Anticommunism, and a Nation in Flux,; title: 1946-1960; title: War, Repression, and Nation Building; title: The Red Scare and the Decline of Racial Nationalism; title: Racial Nationalism Redux: The Case of Immigration Reform; title: !.I ; i 3 1 i.; title: CHAPTER 7; title: Civil Rights, White Resistance, and Black Nationalism,; title: 1960-1968; title: Civil Rights and Civic Nationalism; title: "I Question America": The Crisis in Atlantic City; title: "Speaking as a Victim of This American System"; title: CHAPTER 8; title: Vietnam, Cultural Revolt, and the Collapse of the; title: Rooseveltian Nation, 1968-1975; title: A Catastrophic War; title: The Spread of Anti-Americanism and the Revolt against; title: Assimilation; title: The Collapse of the Rooseveltian Nation; title: EPILOGUE; title: Beyond the Rooseveltian Nation, 1975-2000; title: Varieties of Multiculturalism; title: "A Springtime of Hope": Ronald Reagan and the; title: Nationalist Renaissance; title: Reviving the Liberal Nation; title: Notes; title: Index; title: : d; title: fl~~~~~.