Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism

by Walter Benn Michaels

Book Overview

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America offers both a provocative reinterpretation of the role of identity in modernism and a sustained critique of the role of identity in postmodernism.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822320649
• ISBN13: 9780822320647
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"