The fractious nation? unity and division in contemporary American life
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley
University of California Press
2003
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| Collection: | Netlibrary - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- "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 multicultura