Deforming American political thought : ethnicity, facticity, and genre /

Shapiro, Michael J.

Deforming American political thought : ethnicity, facticity, and genre / Michael J. Shapiro. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006. - 1 online resource (xxii, 245 pages) : illustrations -

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-232) and index.

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

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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. Exploring s.


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Political science--History.--United States
Ethnicity--United States.
Ethnocentrism--United States.
Political culture--History.--United States
Arts--Political aspects--United States.
Ethnicité--États-Unis.
Ethnocentrisme--États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--History & Theory.
Arts--Political aspects.
Ethnicity.
Ethnocentrism.
Political culture.
Political science.
Ethnozentrismus
Politische Philosophie
Kultur
Politisk teori--historia--Förenta staterna.
Politik och film, USA.
Etnicitet på film, USA.


United States.
USA


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