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Author Weber, Cynthia.

Title 'I am an American' : filming the fear of difference / Cynthia Weber.

Publication Info. Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages) : color illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- pt. 1. 'I am an American' -- Beginnings -- Soldiers -- Civilians -- Collateral damage -- Transitions -- pt. 2. Academic responses.
Summary From Samuel Huntington's highly controversial Who Are We? to the urgent appeal of Naomi Wolf's The End of America, Americans are increasingly reflecting on questions of democracy, multiculturalism, and national identity. Yet such debates take place largely at the level of elites, leaving out ordinary American citizens who have much to offer about the lived reality behind the phrase, 'I am an American'.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Americanization.
Americanization.
Multiculturalism -- United States.
Multiculturalism.
United States.
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, American.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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