Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity

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WARNING:!!!THIS FILE'S SCANNING QUALITY IS VERY BAD!!! I MADE DETAILED BOOKMARKS OF THIS BOOK The author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order analyzes the gradual erosion of American identity over the recent decades because of bilingualism, multiculturalism, and other factors and explores key signs of a revival of American identity and a return to core cultural values in the wake of September 11th. 75,000 first printing. Cover ALSO BY SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Title Copyright Acknowledgments Dedication Contents List Of Illustrations Foreword PART I: The Issues of Identity CHAPTER 1: The Crisis of National Identity SALIENCE: ARE THE FLAGS STILL THERE? Other-National Identities Subnational Identities Transnational Identities SUBSTANCE: WHO ARE WE? THE GLOBAL IDENTITY CRISIS PROSPECTS FOR AMERICAN IDENTITY CHAPTER 2: Identities: National and Other THE CONCEPT OF IDENTITY OTHERS AND ENEMIES SOURCES OF IDENTITY THE FALSE DICHOTOMY PART II: American Identity CHAPTER 3: Components of American Identity CHANGE, CONTINUITY, AND PARTIAL TRUTHS SETTLERS BEFORE IMMIGRANTS MORE THAN THE CREED "NO ATTACHMENT TO PLACE" RACE AND ETHNICITY CHAPTER 4: Anglo-Protestant Culture THE CULTURAL CORE "THE DISSIDENCE OF DISSENT" THE AMERICAN CREED INDIVIDUALISM AND THE WORK ETHIC MORALISM AND THE REFORM ETHIC CHAPTER 5: Religion and Christianity GOD, THE CROSS, AND AMERICA A RELIGIOUS PEOPLE PROTESTANT AMERICA AND CATHOLICISM A CHRISTIAN PEOPLE CIVIL RELIGION CHAPTER 6: Emergence, Triumph, Erosion THE FRAGILITY OF NATIONS CREATING AN AMERICAN IDENTITY NATIONAL VS. OTHER IDENTITIES NATION AND PATRIOTISM TRIUMPHANT National Consciousness Economic Development and National Organizations North-South Reconciliation National History Patriotic Rituals and Symbols The Assimilation Debate Americanizing the Immigrant World Wars FADING NATIONALISM PART III: Challenges to American Identity CHAPTER 7: Deconstructing America: The Rise of Subnational Identities THE DECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT THE CHALLENGE TO THE CREED THE CHALLENGE TO ENGLISH THE CHALLENGE TO THE CORE CULTURE CHAPTER 8: Assimilation: Converts, Ampersands, and the Erosion of Citizenship IMMIGRATION WITH ORWITHOUT ASSIMILATION ASSIMILATION: STILL A SUCCESS? SOURCES OF ASSIMILATION THE IMMIGRANTS Compatibility Selectivity Commitment THE IMMIGRATION PROCESS Diversity and Dispersion Discontinuity Wars AMERICAN SOCIETY: AMERICANIZATION IS UN-AMERICAN AMPERSANDS AND DUAL CITIZENSHIP CITIZENS AND NONCITIZENS ALTERNATIVES TO AMERICANIZATION CHAPTER 9: Mexican Immigration and Hispanization THE MEXICAN/HISPANIC CHALLENGE WHY MEXICAN IMMIGRATION DIFFERS Contiguity Numbers Illegality Regional Concentration Persistence Historical Presence HOW MEXICAN ASSIMILATION LAGS Language Education Occupation and Income Citizenship Intermarriage Identity Summary INDIVIDUAL ASSIMILATION AND ENCLAVE CONSOLIDATION THE HISPANIZATION OF MIAMI THE HISPANIZATION OF THE SOUTHWEST CHAPTER 10: Merging America with the World THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT THE SEARCH FOR AN ENEMY DEAD SOULS: THE DENATIONALIZATION OF ELITES THE PATRIOTIC PUBLIC DIASPORAS, FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, AND AMERICAN POLITICS PART IV: Renewing American Identity CHAPTER 11: Fault Lines Old and New THE SHAPING TRENDS THE ENDING OF ETHNICITY RACE: CONSTANT, BLURRING, FADING WHITE NATIVISM BIFURCATION: TWO LANGUAGES AND TWO CULTURES UNREPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: ELITES VS. THE PUBLIC CHAPTER 12: Twenty-first Century America: Vulnerability, Religion, and National Identity THE CREED IN AN AGE OF VULNERABILITY AMERICANS TURN TO RELIGION The Rise of Conservative Christianity The Public and Religion Religion in Politics The Religious Election THE GLOBAL RESURGENCE OF RELIGION MILITANT ISLAM VS. AMERICA AMERICA IN THE WORLD: COSMOPOLITAN, IMPERIAL, AND/OR NATIONAL? Notes Chapter 1. The Crisis of National Identity Chapter 2. Identities: National and Other Chapter 3. Components of American Identity Chapter 4. Anglo-Protestant Culture Chapter 5. Religion and Christianity Chapter 6. Emergence, Triumph, Erosion Chapter 7. Deconstructing America: The Rise of Subnational Identities Chapter 8. Assimilation: Converts, Ampersands, and the Erosion of Citizenship Chapter 9. Mexican Immigration and Hispanization Chapter 10. Merging America with the World Chapter 11. Fault Lines Old and New Chapter 12. Twenty-first Century America: Vulnerability, Religion, and National Identity Index Back Cpver