TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shapiro,Michael J.
TI  - Deforming American political thought: ethnicity, facticity, and genre 
SN  - 0813171539
AV  - JA84.U5 S514 2006eb
U1  - 320.0973 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Political science
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Ethnocentrism
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Arts
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Ethnicité
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Ethnocentrisme
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnozentrismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Politische Philosophie
KW  - Kultur
KW  - Politisk teori
KW  - historia
KW  - Förenta staterna
KW  - sao
KW  - Politik och film, USA
KW  - sfit
KW  - Etnicitet på film, USA
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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