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Who Are We?: The Challenges to America''s National Identity

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作 者:塞缪尔•亨廷顿(Samuel P Huntington)

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出版时间:2005年11月29日

I S B N:9780684870540

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In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics.

Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.

America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, and the "denationalization" of American elites.

September 11 brought a revival of American patriotism and a renewal of American identity, but already there are signs that this revival is fading. Huntington argues the need for us to reassert the core values that make us Americans. Timely and thought-provoking, Who Are We? is an important book that is certain to shape our national conversation about who we are.

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Contents

Foreword

Part I: The Issues of Identity

Chapter 1. The Crisis of National Identity

Salience: Are the Flags Still There?

Substance: Who Are We?

The Global Identity Crisis

Prospects for American Identity

Chapter 2. Identities: National and Other

The Concept of Identity

Others and Enemies

Sources of Identity

The False Dichotomy

Part II: American Identity

Chapter 3. Components of American Identity

Change, Continuity, and Partial Truths

Settlers Before Immigrants

More Than the Creed

"No Attachment to Place"

Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 4. Anglo-Protestant Culture

The Cultural Core

"The Dissidence of Dissent"

The American Creed

Individualism and the Work Ethic

Moralism and the Reform Ethic

Chapter 5. Religion and Christianity

God, the Cross, and America

A Religious People

Protestant America and Catholicism

A Christian People

Civil Religion

Chapter 6. Emergence, Triumph, Erosion

The Fragility of Nations

Creating an American Identity

National vs. Other Identities

Nation and Patriotism Triumphant

Fading Nationalism

Part III: Challenges to American Identity

Chapter 7. Deconstructing America: The Rise of Subnational Identities

The Deconstructionist Movement

The Challenge to the Creed

The Challenge to English

The Challenge to the Core Culture

Chapter 8. Assimilation: Converts, Ampersands, and the Erosion of Citizenship

Immigration With or Without Assimilation

Assimilation: Still a Success?

Sources of Assimilation

The Immigrants

The Immigration Process

American Society: Americanization Is Un-American

Ampersands and Dual Citizenship

Citizens and Noncitizens

Alternatives to Americanization

Chapter 9. Mexican Immigration and Hispanization

The Mexican/Hispanic Challenge

Why Mexican Immigration Differs

How Mexican Assimilation Lags

Individual Assimilation and Enclave Consolidation

The Hispanization of Miami

The Hispanization of the Southwest

Chapter 10. Merging America with the World

The Changing Environment

The Search for an Enemy

Dead Souls: The Denationalization of Elites

The Patriotic Public

Diasporas, Foreign Governments, and American Politics

Part IV: Renewing American Identity

Chapter 11. Fault Lines Old and New

The Shaping Trends

The Ending of Ethnicity

Race: Constant, Blurring, Fading

White Nativism

Bifurcation: Two Languages and Two Cultures?

Unrepresentative Democracy: Elites vs. the Public

Chapter 12. Twenty-first Century America: Vulnerability, Religion, and National Identity

The Creed in an Age of Vulnerability

Americans Turn to Religion

The Global Resurgence of Religion

Militant Islam vs. America

America in the World: Cosmopolitan, Imperial, and/or National?

Notes

Index

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