American Multiculturalism after 9/11
Transatlantic Perspectives
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
This groundbreaking volume explores the multicultural debate that has evolved in the United States and Europe since the cataclysmic events of 9/11. Instead of suggesting closure by presenting a unified narrative about cultural diversity, national identity, and social stratification, the essays in this well-balanced collection present a variety of perspectives, each highlighting the undiminished relevance of key issues such as immigration, assimilation, and citizenship, while also pointing to unresolved conflicts over universalism, religion, and tolerance. Most importantly, this volume shows that the struggle over multiculturalism is not limited to the political domain, but also has profound cultural implications. American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives is an invaluable, thought-provoking addition to the debate about multiculturalism as central to the study of the United States in a global context.
Introduction
Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul
Multicultural Boundary Crossings
Multiculturalism and Immigration
Paul Lauter
Native-Immigrant Boundaries and Ethnic and Racial Inequalities
Richard Alba
Coherence, Difference, and Citizenship: A Genealogy of Multiculturalism
Ed Jonker
Cultural Reflections of the Unthinkable
Indecent Exposure: Picturing the Horror of 9/11
Rob Kroes
“The Dead Are Our Redeemers”: Culture, Belief, and United 93
Phillip E. Wegner
Real American Heroes: Attacking Multiculturalism through the Discourse of Heroic Sacrifice
Michan Andrew Connor
“America under Attack”: Unity and Division after 9/11
Mathilde Roza
“This Godless Democracy”: Terrorism, Multiculturalism, and American Self-Criticism in John Updike
John-Paul Colgan
Multiculturalism in American History Textbooks before and after 9/11
Rachel Hutchins-Viroux
Transatlantic Dialogues
A Kinder, Gentler Europe? Islam, Christianity, and the Divergent Multiculturalisms of the New West
Patrick Hyder Patterson
Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Perspective
Johanna C. Kardux
Are We All Americans? 9/11 and Discourses of Multiculturalism in the Netherlands
Jaap Kooijman
“How could this have happened in Holland?”
American Perceptions of Dutch Multiculturalism after 9/11
Jaap Verheul
About the Contributors
Index
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