America's World Identity: The Politics of Exclusion

America's World Identity: The Politics of Exclusion
ISBN-10
1349416436
ISBN-13
9781349416431
Category
Culture
Pages
261
Language
English
Published
2000
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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