America's World Identity: The Politics of Exclusion

America's World Identity: The Politics of Exclusion
ISBN-10
0312223226
ISBN-13
9780312223229
Category
History
Pages
261
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Neil Renwick

Description

What is America's national identity? This study offers a new perspective into this question. It argues that this identity is constructed rather than essential and reflects the politics of exclusion. This identificatory exclusion has been globalized through American economic, cultural, political, and military expansion. The study provocatively draws upon poetry, literature, art, architecture, gangsta rap, landscape, and cityscape to illuminate the construction of America's national identity and illustrates how this has been globalized in an increasingly post-modernist condition.

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