Exceptional America [electronic resource] what divides Americans from the world and from each other

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서명/저자사항	Exceptional America [electronic resource] : what divides Americans from the world and from each other / Mugambi Jouet.
개인저자	Jouet, Mugambi, 1981- author.
발행사항	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017].
형태사항	1 online resource.
기타표제	CIP title: Exceptional America : what separates Americans from the world and from each other
기타형태 저록	Print version: Jouet, Mugambi, 1981- Exceptional America. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520293298
ISBN	9780520966468 0520966465
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-341) and index.
내용주기	One nation, divisible -- From the American Enlightenment to anti-intellectualism -- The exceptional influence of Christian fundamentalism -- The culture wars of faith, sex, and gender -- Between democracy and plutocracy -- Millions standing against their own economic interest -- Mass incarceration, executions, and gun violence in "the land of the free" -- America and the world.
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요약	"Why does a country built on the concept of liberty have the highest incarceration rate in the world? How could the first Western nation to elect a person of color as its leader suffer from institutional racism? How does Christian fundamentalism coexist with gay marriage in the American imagination? In essence, what makes the United States exceptional? In this provocative exploration of American exceptionalism, Mugambi Jouet explores why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues--including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, the literal truth of the Bible, abortion, gay rights, gun control, mass incarceration, and war. Drawing inspiration from Alexis de Tocqueville, Jouet, raised in Paris by a French mother and a Kenyan father, wields his multicultural sensibility to parse the ways in which the intense polarization of U.S. conservatives and liberals has become a key dimension of American exceptionalism--an idea widely misunderstood to mean American superiority. Instead, Jouet contends that exceptionalism, once a source of strength, may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. history, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave conflicts and injustices. This book offers a brilliant dissection of the American soul, in all of its outsize, clashing, and striking manifestations."--Provided by publisher.
주제명(지명)	United States --Social policy. United States --Economic policy. United States --Politics and government --21st century. United States. --fast
일반주제명	Exceptionalism --United States. National characteristics, American. Economic policy. Exceptionalism. National characteristics, American. Politics and government. Social policy. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
분류기호(DDC)	973
언어	영어
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