Who Are We ? - America's Great Debate

Who Are We ? - America's Great Debate

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Author: Samuel P Huntington
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 428
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143032410

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In the surge of patriotism in the weeks after 11 September 2001, the Stars and Stripes had never been so visible. In early October, eight out of ten Americans said they were displaying the flag. The retial Wal-Mart reportedly sold 250,000 flags on September 12th.

The flags were a physical evidence of the sudden and dramatic rise in the importance of national identity for Americans. But what does the American flag represent, and what are the cultural values it celebrates? For some it is McDonald's, Disney and baseball. For others its values are defined by those of the early British settlers who brought their own culture and language. For the African-American community and millions of Hispanic immigrants, it is none of these.

America has always had to wrestle with the problems of assimilating different cultures. Today, however, modern immigrants can retain the culture of their homeland more easily than ever, with long-distance phone calls, native-language television and cheap air travel. In Who Are We? Bestselling author Samuel P Huntington argues that America, rather than being an immigrant nation, is in fact a settler society, and that its core values were essentially defined over 200 years ago by the Anglo-Saxon Protestant settlers.

Who Are We? is an important work of political, historical and cultural enquiry that, as with Huntington's previous book, is certain to spark a lively debate.

Contents

FOREWORD

PART I: THE ISSUES OF IDENTITY

CHAPTER 1
The Crisis of National Identity?

CHAPTER 2
Identities: National and Other

PART II: AMERICAN IDENTITY

CHAPTER 3
Components of American Identity

CHAPTER 4
Anglo-Protestant Culture

CHAPTER 5
Religion and Christianity

CHAPTER 6
Emergence, Triumph, Erosion

PART III: CHALLENGES TO AMERICAN IDENTITY

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

PART IV: RENEWING AMERICAN IDENTITY

CHAPTER 11
Fault Lines Old and New

CHAPTER 12
Twenty-first Century America: Vulnerability, Religion, and National Identity

Notes

Index