Belonging in America

Belonging in America

Author: Constance Perin

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780299115845

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Belonging in America gives voice to unspoken conventions and silent understandings and asks why our culture draws the lines it does--between home and work, family and friends, humans and animals. Throughout her fascinating book, Constance Perin shows us the systems of meaning through which contemporary American create social order and define their relationships.


Americans

Americans

Author: Edward Countryman

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Published: 1997-04-14

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1466801239

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In this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America's different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic seaboard to the battle over our nation's destiny in the aftermath of the Civil War, Countryman reveals Americans in all their diverse complexity and shows why the very identity of "American"--forged by the African, the Indian, and the European alike--is what matters.


Americans, a Collision of Histories

Americans, a Collision of Histories

Author: Edward Countryman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0809025930

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In recent decades it has become fashionable to maintain that the experience of various American ethnic groups - whether African, Indian, or European - is the most significant. In this important social history, the noted scholar Edward Countryman shows, instead, why the very identity of "American" - forged by all these people - is what matters. This is a scintillating analysis of what becoming American means in historical terms. Edward Countryman offers not one perspective of American history (and thus one identity) but all the perspectives that have contributed to our sense of nationality.


Conditional Citizens

Conditional Citizens

Author: Laila Lalami

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0525436049

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A New York Times Editors' Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles Times In this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin, race, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.


Belonging to America

Belonging to America

Author: Kenneth L. Karst

Publisher:

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780300050288

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The notion of equality in the American system is explored through individual discussions of race, sex, religion, ethnic background asking the question who belongs?


The American Diplomatic Code

The American Diplomatic Code

Author: Jonathan Elliot

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13:

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"Embracing a collection of treaties and conventions between the United States and foreign powers from 1778 to 1834 ; also, a concise diplomatic manual containing a summary of the law of nations from the works of Wicquefort, Martens, Kent, Vattel, Ward, Story, etc."--T.p.