The fractious nation?

Titel: The fractious nation? : Unity and division in contemporary American life / ed. by Jonathan Rieder
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Veröffentlicht: Berkeley ˜[u.a.]œ : Univ. of California Press, 2003
Umfang: VII, 295 S. ; 24 cm
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.: 2004. - Online-Ressource.
ISBN: 1417525584 (Sekundärausgabe) ; 9781417525584 (Sekundärausgabe)
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Bemerkung: Getting a fix on fragmentation: "breakdown" as estimation error, rhetorical strategy, and organizational accomplishment / Jonathan Rieder. - The fetish of difference / Richard Berstein. - Fragments or ties? the defense of difference / Martha Minow. - The myth of culture war: the disparity between private opinion and public politics / Paul DiMaggio. - America's Jews: highly fragmented, insufficiently disputatious / Jack Wertheimer. - Once again, strangers on our shores / Mary C. Waters. - Expelling newcomers: the eclipse of constitutional community / Cecilia Muñoz. - The United States in the world community: the limits of national sovereignty / Douglas S. Massey. - "Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?": narrowing the enduring divisions of race / Jennifer Hochschild. - The ambivalence of citizenship: African-American intellectuals in search of community / Kevin Gaines. - Social provision and civic community: beyond fragmentation / Theda Skocpol. - Stable fragmentation in multicultural America / Paul Starr. - The moral compassion of true conservatism / John J. DiIulio Jr.. - Shaking off the past: third ways, fourth ways, and the urgency of politics / E.J. Dionne Jr.. - Epilogue: Into the unknown: unity and conflict after September 11, 2001 / Jonathan Rieder