<p>"The insights on racial influences and immigration and citizenship rights are debated in essays which are powerful and insightful." -- <em>The Midwest Book Review</em><br />"Thoughtful and thought-provoking essays on a topic of inestimable importance." -- <em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br />"This collection of essays by nine intellectuals is thought-provoking, passionate, and stirring...this is required reading for all citizens." -- <em>Library Journal</em></p>
In The Good Citizen, some of the most eminent contemporary thinkers take up the question of the future of American democracy in an age of globalization, growing civic apathy, corporate unaccountability, and purported fragmentation of the American common identity by identity politics.
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In this timely volume, renowned writers from varying backgounds discuss the meaning of citizenship in the United States. Original contributions by Cornell West, Ronald Takaki, Barbara Christian, Judith Butler, Michael Lerner.
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Introduction: What Does it Mean to be an American?; 1. The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society, Cornel West; 2. The Ethics of Polarization in the United Staes and the World, Robert N. Bellah; 3. Virtually Democratic: Twenty Essentials for the Citizen in a Network Society, David Batstone; 4. The Crime of Innocence, Barbara Christian; 5. The Crisis of Values in America: Its Manipulation by the Right and its Invisibility to the Left, Michael Lerner; 6. Race at the End of History, Ronald Takaki; 7. Latina/o Identity Politics, Linda Martín Alcoff; 8. Becoming Citizens, Becoming Hispanics, Eduardo Mendieta; 9. Contagious Word: Paranoia and Homosexuality in the Military, JudithButler; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index of Names
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415929080
Publisert
2001-04-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
330 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176