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Author:
Borstelmann, Thomas author.
Title:
Just like us : the American struggle to understand foreigners / Thomas Borstelmann.
Publisher:
Columbia University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xiii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
National characteristics, American--History.
Cultural awareness--United States.
Race awareness--United States--History.
United States--History.--History.
Cultural pluralism--United States--History.
Globalization--History.--United States--History.
Exceptionalism--United States--History.
Americanization.
Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
Americanization.
Cultural awareness.
Cultural pluralism.
Exceptionalism.
Globalization--Social aspects.
National characteristics, American.
Race awareness.
Race relations.
Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart. Yet American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans to the uneasy welcome of waves of immigrants, from republican disavowals of colonialism to Cold War proclamations of freedom, Americans' ideas of their differences from others have shaped the modern world--and how Americans have viewed foreigners is deeply revealing of their assumptions about themselves. Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values at heart beneath the layers of culture. Considering race and religion, notions of the American way of life, attitudes toward immigrants, competition with communism, Americans abroad, and the subversive power of American culture, he offers a surprisingly optimistic account of the acceptance of difference. Borstelmann contends that increasing contact with peoples around the globe during the Cold War encouraged mainstream society to grow steadily more inclusive in terms of who could be considered fully American. In a time of resurgent nativism and xenophobia, Just Like Us provides a reflective, urgent examination of how Americans have conceived of foreignness and their own exceptionalism throughout the nation's history"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0231193521
9780231193528
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1122800770
LCCN:
2019043058
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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