...This chapter reflects on what the memorialization of United Airlines Flight 93 symbolizes about American culture and society in the objective moment of crisis it is currently experiencing. More specifically, it explores the American cultural effort to propagate a mythology of national identity...

.... In particular, it looks at a “New Era” of postwar labor militancy and 1920s industrial psychology, personnel management, and romantic vagabondage; defeats and struggles during the Great Depression; and renegotiations of gender and national identity in a reborn industrial economy during the war. It also...

...One way to explore various dimensions of civil religion is to examine the symbols and icons used to identify the nation and represent it as exceptional, unified, and moral. Through an analysis of the use of two images of American national identity—Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty—in political...

... violento merengue Ulysse Gina Candelario Ginetta disidentification Muñoz José Carter Lynda Cruz Celia Dora the Explorer Eurocentric national identity Kahlo Frida Peralta M Tony Peralta Project Selena Vinaixa Iñaki desire Seval Tony merengue típico misogyny Santo Domingo capital city...

...This concluding chapter analyzes the three practices detailed in the previous chapters, and the ways that they assert a platform for community formation based on Guadalupan devotion, Mexican national identity, and being undocumented. Participation in los comités guadalupanos and in the activities...

... spaces that redefine exclusionary conceptualizations of U.S. citizenship and belonging. In addition to problematizing simplistic types of post-9/11 patriotism that demand a unilateral type of U.S. national identity, the creation of these revisionary spaces responds to racial stereotyping, blanket...

...This chapter explores the limits and implications of modern traditionalism in contemporary Qatar, how it enriches certain populations to the detriment of others. Because modern traditionalism is intended to fortify national identity, it may inadvertently sustain some of the social conditions...

... of large numbers of Jews to refashion themselves as they confronted major problems of the twentieth century: poverty, anti-semitism, the meaning of American national identity, war, and totalitarianism. This book tells the story of Jewish radicals over seven decades for the first time in their own words....

... of inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national identity. It examines three salient moments when African American and Asian American citizenship become acutely visible as related crises: the “Negro Problem” and the “Yellow Question” in the mid...

..., and loyalty to the state by parsing through the varied ways in which the members of First Afrikan understand their national identity. First Afrikan Presbyterian Church Middle class status Blue Chip Black Afrocentrism Double consciousness Black Nationalism Bush George W Dreaming Blackness class dynamics...

...This chapter analyzes the works of Ranald MacDonald, a Scotch-Chinook descendent of the Northwest fur trade, whose liminal national identity was formed by competing British and American empires. Born in British Oregon, MacDonald's sense of national dislocation resulted from both his mixed blood...

..., and dangerous exoticism. Tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which a growing number of dancers from different parts of the globe meet on the dance floor. This book shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men...

... national identity. This book reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of “character” in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth...

... of Chicana/o narratives of the nation, there should be alternative ways to imagine the significance of Chicano literature other than as a reflection of national identity. The book provides a way to think of early writers as a meaningful part of Chicano literary history, and, in looking at the nation, rather...

..., and Colombian national identity, as he delineates the complex processes via which, in Colombia, “[d]iversity does not just break through the official image of homogeneity; it is contained within it.” It also argues for a transnational and gender-based approach to the study of contemporary Colombian identity...

... national identity and connects ideas about visibility in African American public culture to the propaganda of the U.S. antislavery movement. citizenship comportment domesticity literacy New York racial iconography visibility caricatures confrontational postures Imbert Anthony “Life in New York...

... Agreement and John Howard Griffin's 1961 memoir Black Like Me. Gentleman's Agreement, about a gentile journalist who passes as a Jew to investigate anti-Semitism, appeared amid a flurry of explorations of group and national identity. Meanwhile, Black Like...

... devotion, Mexican national identity, and undocumented immigration status. Asociación Tepeyac de New York Ong Aihwa “Personhood” “personness ” Religion religious Right s Undocumented Border Bosniak Linda Citizenship Deportation “Illegality ” Membership Appadurai Arjun Díaz Barriga Miguel...

... a concept of American nationhood in a divisive and rapidly evolving age. It also makes recommendations aimed at maintaining even a modest sense of national identity throughout the twenty-first century, such as respecting judicial restraint, valuing the nationalism in the U.S. Constitution, restoring...

... to control immigration: (1) national identity, (2) freedom of association, and (3) ownership/property. The third and final section offers an alternative argument based on the requirements of democracy. Bosniak Linda citizenship international agreements on migration borders Chinese Exclusion Case of Chae...