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Introduction
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.
Keywords
identity inclusion national identity politics Superpower
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597945
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-41644-8
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-59794-5
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