This Violent Empire

This Violent Empire
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 509
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ISBN-10 : 9780807895917
ISBN-13 : 0807895911
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Book Synopsis This Violent Empire by : Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Download or read book This Violent Empire written by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self. Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of "Others" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.


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