American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives

book: American Multiculturalism after 9/11

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2009

American Multiculturalism after 9/11

Transatlantic Perspectives

Edited by: Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul

In the series American Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048510757

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Derek Rubin lectures in the American Studies Program at Utrecht University. Jaap Verheul is associate professor of history and director of the American Studies Program at Utrecht University.

Reviews

“These lively essays illuminate the ways in which multiculturalist initiatives in the United States and Europe have influenced one another with a variety of productive as well as unproductive effects, especially since the events of 9/11. The authors vindicate the promise of American Studies as a scholarly domain in which the trend from a preoccupation with ‘identity’ to a concern for ‘solidarity’ can be charted and critically interrogated.”—David A. Hollinger, author of Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism

— David A. Hollinger, author of Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism

“The thirteen new essays assembled in this book make many fresh and often surprising contributions to understanding the theoretical issues surrounding multiculturalism, the effects of the terrorist attacks of 2001 on debates about American ethnic diversity and national unity, and European and transatlantic perspectives on migration and religious difference.”

— Werner Sollors, author of Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descebt in American Culture and coedtior of A New Literary History of America

“American Multiculturalism after 9/11 is a timely and extremely important intervention in and reconfiguration of the debates over multiculturalism that took place after 9/11 on both sides of the Atlantic.”

— Donald E. Pease, coeditor of Cultures of American Imperialism and The Futures of American Studies

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	7
Multicultural Boundery Crossings
Multiculturalism and Immigration Paul Lauter Open Access Download PDF	23
Native-Immigrant Boundaries and Ethnic and Racial Inequalities Richard Alba Open Access Download PDF	35
Coherence, Difference, and Citizenship: A Genealogy of Multiculturalism Ed Jonker Open Access Download PDF	51
Cultural Reflections of the Unthinkable
Indecent Exposure: Picturing the Horror of 9/11 Rob Kroes Open Access Download PDF	67
“The Dead Are Our Redeemers”: Culture, Belief, and United 93 Phillip E. Wegner Open Access Download PDF	81
Real American Heroes: Attacking Multiculturalism through the Discourse of Heroic Sacrifice Michan Andrew Connor Open Access Download PDF	93
“America under Attack”: Unity and Division after 9/11 Mathilde Roza Open Access Download PDF	105
“This Godless Democracy”: Terrorism, Multiculturalism, and American Self- Criticism in John Updike John-Paul Colgan Open Access Download PDF	119
Multiculturalism in American History Textbooks before and after 9/11 Rachel Hutchins-Viroux Open Access Download PDF	133
Transatlantic Dialogues
A Kinder, Gentler Europe? Islam, Christianity, and the Divergent Multiculturalisms of the New West Patrick Hyder Patterson Open Access Download PDF	147
Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Perspective Johanna C. Kardux Open Access Download PDF	165
Are We All Americans? 9/11 and Discourses of Multiculturalism in the Netherlands Jaap Kooijman Open Access Download PDF	181
“How could this have happened in Holland?” American Perceptions of Dutch Multiculturalism after 9/11 Jaap Verheul Open Access Download PDF	191
About the Contributors Open Access Download PDF	207
Index Open Access Download PDF	213

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Pages
- Main content: 224

eBook

Published: July 15, 2012
ISBN: 9789048510757