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

• Autore: Shapiro Michael J
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.0973
• Soggetto topico: Political science - United States - History; Ethnicity - United States; Ethnocentrism - United States; Political culture - United States - History; Arts - Political aspects - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Deforming American political thought
• ISBN: 0-8131-3835-3; 1-283-23271-5; 9786613232717; 0-8131-7153-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452124103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II