The Resource Exceptional America : what separates Americans from the world and from each other, Mugambi Jouet
Exceptional America : what separates Americans from the world and from each other, Mugambi Jouet
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- Summary
- "Why does a country built on the concept of liberty have the highest incarceration rate in the world? How could the first Western nation to elect a person of color as its leader suffer from institutional racism? How does Christian fundamentalism coexist with gay marriage in the American imagination? In essence, what makes the United States exceptional? In this provocative exploration of American exceptionalism, Mugambi Jouet explores why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues -- including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, the literal truth of the Bible, abortion, gay rights, gun control, mass incarceration, and war. Drawing inspiration from Alexis de Tocqueville, Jouet, raised in Paris by a French mother and a Kenyan father, wields his multicultural sensibility to parse the ways in which the intense polarization of U.S. conservatives and liberals has become a key dimension of American exceptionalism--an idea widely misunderstood to mean American superiority. Instead, Jouet contends that exceptionalism, once a source of strength, may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. history, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave conflicts and injustices. This book offers a brilliant dissection of the American soul, in all of its outsize, clashing, and striking manifestations."--Book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 360 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520293298
- Label
- Exceptional America : what separates Americans from the world and from each other
- Title
- Exceptional America
- Title remainder
- what separates Americans from the world and from each other
- Statement of responsibility
- Mugambi Jouet
- Title variation
- What separates Americans from the world and from each other
- Subject
-
- Exceptionalism
- Social policy
- Politics and government
- 2000-2099
- United States -- Social policy
- Economic policy
- United States -- Economic policy
- Exceptionalism -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American
- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Why does a country built on the concept of liberty have the highest incarceration rate in the world? How could the first Western nation to elect a person of color as its leader suffer from institutional racism? How does Christian fundamentalism coexist with gay marriage in the American imagination? In essence, what makes the United States exceptional? In this provocative exploration of American exceptionalism, Mugambi Jouet explores why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues -- including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, the literal truth of the Bible, abortion, gay rights, gun control, mass incarceration, and war. Drawing inspiration from Alexis de Tocqueville, Jouet, raised in Paris by a French mother and a Kenyan father, wields his multicultural sensibility to parse the ways in which the intense polarization of U.S. conservatives and liberals has become a key dimension of American exceptionalism--an idea widely misunderstood to mean American superiority. Instead, Jouet contends that exceptionalism, once a source of strength, may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. history, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave conflicts and injustices. This book offers a brilliant dissection of the American soul, in all of its outsize, clashing, and striking manifestations."--Book jacket
- Cataloging source
- CQU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1981-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jouet, Mugambi
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Exceptionalism
- National characteristics, American
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Economic policy
- Exceptionalism
- National characteristics, American
- Politics and government
- Social policy
- United States
- Label
- Exceptional America : what separates Americans from the world and from each other, Mugambi Jouet
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 360 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520293298
- Lccn
- 2016046909
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)984637357
- Label
- Exceptional America : what separates Americans from the world and from each other, Mugambi Jouet
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 360 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520293298
- Lccn
- 2016046909
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)984637357
Subject
- 2000-2099
- Economic policy
- Exceptionalism
- Exceptionalism -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American
- Politics and government
- Social policy
- United States
- United States -- Economic policy
- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- United States -- Social policy
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