Identity and the failure of America : from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror /
From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America's self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfra...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
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| Online dostop: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts3vc |
Kazalo:
- The failure of America and the claims of identity
- Jefferson's headache: race and the failure of a benevolent republic
- Ahab's cannibals: vicissitudes of command and the failure of manly virtue
- Lydia Maria Child's romance: cosmopolitan imagination and the failure of gender reform
- John Brown's identities: Nat Turner and the fear of just deserts
- Emerson's activism: the trials and tribulations of an American citizen
- Douglass's cosmopolitanism: American empire and the failure of diplomatic representation
- American identities and global terror.