The logic of democratic exclusion
Subtitle: African Americans in the United States and Palestinian citizens in Israel
By: Rebecca B. Kook.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights.; Marginality, Social -- United States.; National characteristics, American.; Palestinian Arabs -- Civil rights -- Israel.; Marginality, Social -- Israel.; National characteristics, Israeli.; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-; Israel -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.; Israel -- Politics and government -- 1993-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: National identity and collective action; title: Representing American national identity : the shifting status of African Americans; title: National identity in Israel : being a Palestinian in a Jewish state; title: The legal construction of membership in Israel; title: Reinventing the invisible man : African Americans and the American symbolic indexes of identity; title: Nationalizing religion : the Israeli national symbolic matrix; title: Re-writing national identity - from Blacks to African Americans; title: The crisis of Israeli collective national identity.