Title The fractious nation? : unity and division in contemporary American life / edited by Jonathan Rieder ; Steven Steinlight, associate editor

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003] ©2003

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Description vii, 295 pages ; 24 cm 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States. National characteristics, American. Cultural pluralism -- United States. Political culture -- United States. Social conflict -- United States. SUBJECT United States -- Moral conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140383 United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744 United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524 Author Rieder, Jonathan. Steinlight, Steven LC no. 2003001858 ISBN 0520220439 0520236629 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520236637 (paperback: alk. paper)

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