ISBN:
9780226284934
,
9780226285092
Language:
English
Pages:
323 pages
,
Diagramme
,
23 cm
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Political culture
;
Political sociology
;
Group identity
;
Political psychology
Abstract:
Stories of peoplehood and the spiral of politics -- A theory of the politics of people building -- Narrative structures and the politics of peoplehood / with Meral Ugur Cinar -- Personal stories and communal stories in the politics of peoplehood -- Individual rights in American stories of peoplehood -- Contesting meaning and membership in American peoplehood -- Providentialism and exceptionalism to a politics of moderate peoplehood -- The American "promiseland" and Mexican immigrants -- Multiple citizenships and the legacies of imperialism
Description / Table of Contents:
Stories of peoplehood and the spiral of politicsA theory of the politics of people building -- Narrative structures and the politics of peoplehood / with Meral Ugur Cinar -- Personal stories and communal stories in the politics of peoplehood -- Individual rights in American stories of peoplehood -- Contesting meaning and membership in American peoplehood -- Providentialism and exceptionalism to a politics of moderate peoplehood -- The American "promiseland" and Mexican immigrants -- Multiple citizenships and the legacies of imperialism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index
