Full Description
This groundbreaking volume explores the multicultural debate that has evolved in the United States and Europe since the cataclysmic events of 9/11. Instead of suggesting closure by presenting a unified narrative about cultural diversity, national identity, and social stratification, the essays in this well-balanced collection present a variety of perspectives, each highlighting the undiminished relevance of key issues such as immigration, assimilation, and citizenship, while also pointing to unresolved conflicts over universalism, religion, and tolerance. Most importantly, this volume shows that the struggle over multiculturalism is not limited to the political domain, but also has profound cultural implications. American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives is an invaluable, thought-provoking addition to the debate about multiculturalism as central to the study of the United States in a global context.
Contents
Table of contents - 6[-]Introduction - 8[-]Multiculturalism and Immigration - 24[-]Native-Immigrant Boundaries and Ethnic and Racial Inequalities - 36[-]Coherence, Difference, and Citizenship: A Genealogy of Multiculturalism - 52[-]Indecent Exposure: Picturing the Horror of 9/11 - 68[-]-The Dead Are Our Redeemers : Culture, Belief, and United 93 - 82[-]Real American Heroes: Attacking Multiculturalism through the Discourse of Heroic Sacrifice - 94[-]-America under Attack : Unity and Division after 9/11 - 106[-]-This Godless Democracy : Terrorism, Multiculturalism, and American Self-Criticism in John Updike - 120[-]Multiculturalism in American History Textbooks before and after 9/11 - 134[-]A Kinder, Gentler Europe? Islam, Christianity, and the Divergent Multiculturalisms of the New West - 148[-]Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Perspective - 166[-]Are We All Americans? 9/11 and Discourses of Multiculturalism in the Netherlands - 182[-]-How could this have happened in Holland? American Perceptions of Dutch Multiculturalism after 9/11 - 192[-]About the Contributors - 208[-]Index - 214
