The fractious nation? : unity and division in contemporary American life /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Rieder, Jonathan, Steinlight, Steven
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
Subjects:	National characteristics, American. United States > Politics and government > 1989- Political culture > United States. Citizenship > Social aspects > United States. United States > Moral conditions. United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020. Social conflict > United States. Cultural pluralism > United States. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Getting a fix on fragmentation: "breakdown" as estimation error, rhetorical strategy, and organizational accomplishment / Jonathan Rieder
The fetish of difference / Richard Berstein
Fragments or ties? the defense of difference / Martha Minow
The myth of culture war: the disparity between private opinion and public politics / Paul DiMaggio
America's Jews: highly fragmented, insufficiently disputatious / Jack Wertheimer
Once again, strangers on our shores / Mary C. Waters
Expelling newcomers: the eclipse of constitutional community / Cecilia Muñoz
The United States in the world community: the limits of national sovereignty / Douglas S. Massey
"Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?": narrowing the enduring divisions of race / Jennifer Hochschild
The ambivalence of citizenship: African-American intellectuals in search of community / Kevin Gaines
Social provision and civic community: beyond fragmentation / Theda Skocpol
Stable fragmentation in multicultural America / Paul Starr
The moral compassion of true conservatism / John J. DiIulio Jr.
Shaking off the past: third ways, fourth ways, and the urgency of politics / E.J. Dionne Jr.
Epilogue: Into the unknown: unity and conflict after September 11, 2001 / Jonathan Rieder.