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BL
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842542
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Fong, Edmund
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| Title & Author
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American exceptionalism and the remains of race : : multicultural exorcisms /\ Edmund Fong.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY ;Abingdon, Oxon :: Routledge,, 2015.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge series on identity politics
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1 online resource (xii, 195 pages .)
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| ISBN
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1306972299
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: 1315760649
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: 1317642783
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: 1317642791
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: 9781306972291
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: 9781315760643
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: 9781317642770
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: 9781317642787
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: 9781317642794
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1138794007
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9781138687028
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9781138794009
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 American Exceptionalism's Unfinished Business; 2 The American Exception: The Politics of Recognition and Individual Autonomy; 3 Exceptional Remains: Cosmopolitanism's Province in the American Imagination; 4 In Defense of Women: The Cultural Defense and "Dementia Americana"; 5 The Uncanny Compensations of Culture over Class; 6 Conclusion: Remembering the Remains of Race; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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"In contemporary American political culture, claims of American exceptionalism and anxieties over its prospects have resurged as an overarching theme in national political discourse. Yet never very far from such debates lie animating fears associated with race. Fears about the loss of national unity and trust often draw attention to looming changes in the racial demographics of the body politic. Lost amid these debates are often the more complex legacies of racial hybridity. Anxieties over the disintegration of the fabric of American national identity likewise forget not just how they echo past fears of subversive racial and cultural difference, but also exorcise as well the changing nature of work and social interaction. Edmund Fong's book examines the rise and resurgence of contemporary forms of American exceptionalism as they have emerged out of contentious debates over cultural pluralism and multicultural diversity in the past two decades. For a brief time, serious considerations of the force of multiculturalism entered into a variety of philosophical and policy debates. But in the American context, these debates often led to a reaffirmation of some variant of American exceptionalism with the consequent exorcism of race within the avowed norms and policy goals of American politics. Fong explores how this "multicultural exorcism" revitalizing American exceptionalism is not simply a novel feature of our contemporary political moment, but is instead a recurrent dynamic across the history of American political discourse. By situating contemporary discourse on cultural pluralism within the larger frame of American history, this book yields insight into the production of hegemonic forms of American exceptionalism and how race continues to haunt the contours of American national identity"--
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Cultural pluralism-- Political aspects-- United States.
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Exceptionalism-- United States.
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Multiculturalism-- Political aspects-- United States.
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National characteristics, American-- Political aspects.
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Political culture-- United States.
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Race-- Political aspects-- United States.
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Exceptionalism.
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Multiculturalism-- Political aspects.
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National characteristics, American-- Political aspects.
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Political culture.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- History Theory.
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Politics and government.
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Race-- Political aspects.
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United States, Politics and government, 1989-
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.20973
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JK1726.F65 2015
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POL010000POL000000bisacsh
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