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

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ALSO BY SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
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Dedication
Contents
Foreword
PART I: The Issues of Identity
	CHAPTER 1: The Crisis of National Identity
		SALIENCE: ARE THE FLAGS STILL THERE?
			Other-National Identities
			Subnational Identities
			Transnational Identities
		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
			National Consciousness
			Economic Development and National Organizations
			North-South Reconciliation
			National History
			Patriotic Rituals and Symbols
			The Assimilation Debate
			Americanizing the Immigrant
			World Wais
		FADING NATIONALISM
PART III: Challenges to American Identity
	CHAPTER 7: Deconstructing America: The Rise of Subnational Identities
		THE DECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT
		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
			Compatibility
			Selectivity
			Commitment
		THE IMMIGRATION PROCESS
			Diversity and Dispersion
			Discontinuity
			Wars
		AMERICAN SOCIETY: AMERICANIZATION IS UN-AMERICAN
		AMPERSANDS AND DUAL CITIZENSHIP
		CITIZENS ANI) NONCITIZENS
		ALTERNATIVES TO AMERICANIZATION
	CHAPTER 9: Mexican Immigration and Hispanization
		THE MEXICAN/HIS PANIC CHALLENGE
		WHY MEXICAN IMMIGRATION DIFFERS
			Contiguity
			Numbers
			Illegality
			Regional Concentration
			Persistence
			Historical Presence
		HOW MEXICAN ASSIMILATION LAGS
			Iangauge
			Education
			Occupation and Income
			Citizenship
			Intermarriage
			Identity
			Summary
		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 Rise of Conservative Christianity
			The Public and Religion
			Religion in Politics
			The Religious Election
		THE GLOBAL RESURGENCE OF RELIGION
		MILITANT ISLAM VS. AMERICA
		AMERICA IN THE WORLD: COSMOPOLITAN, IMPERIAL, AND/OR NATIONAL?
Notes
	Chapter 1. The Crisis of National Identity
	Chapter 2. Identities: National and Other
	Chapter 3. Components of American Identity
	Chapter 4. Anglo-Protestant Culture
	Chapter 5. Religion and Christianity
	Chapter 6. Emergence, Triumph, Erosion
	Chapter 7. Deconstructing America: The Rise of Subnational Identities
	Chapter 8. Assimilation: Converts, Ampersands, and the Erosion of Citizenship
	Chapter 9. Mexican Immigration and Hispanization
	Chapter 10. Merging America with the World
	Chapter 11. Fault Lines Old and New
	Chapter 12. Twenty-first Century America: Vulnerability, Religion, and National Identity
Index
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