The fractious nation? : unity and division in contemporary American life / edited by Jonathan Rieder ; Stephen Steinlight, associate editor.
What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an...
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Table of Contents:
- Getting a fix on fragmentation: "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 multicultural America / Paul Starr
- The moral compassion of true conservatism / John J. DiIulio Jr.
- Shaking off the past: third ways, fourth ways, and the urgency of politics / E.J. Dionne Jr.
- Epilogue: Into the unknown: unity and conflict after September 11, 2001 / Jonathan Rieder.