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Record Nr.

UNINA9910535283803321

Autore

Shapiro Michael J

Titolo

Deforming American political thought [[electronic resource] ] : ethnicity, facticity, and genre / / Michael J. Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2006

ISBN

0-8131-3835-3

1-283-23271-5

9786613232717

0-8131-7153-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

320.0973

Soggetti

Political science - United States - History

Ethnicity - United States

Ethnocentrism - United States

Political culture - United States - History

Arts - Political aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Securing the American ethnoscape -- The micropolitics of crime -- Deforming America's western imaginary -- Constructing America -- Composing America -- Democracy's risky businesses.

Sommario/riassunto

By affirming the relativity of the American historical imagination, political theorist Michael J. Shapiro offers a powerful polemic against ethnocentric interpretations of American culture and politics. Deforming American Political Thought analyzes issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson's vision of an egalitarian nation to the persistence of racial inequality. Shapiro demonstrates how history, architecture, film, music, literature, and art are valuable resources that help us comprehend several viewpoints of American political thought from the founding to the present. Explorin