Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie, or Reality

by Rod Bush and Melanie E L Bush

Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The authors consider the origins and development of the U.S. nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism; and their lived reality.

Tensions in the American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592138373
• ISBN13: 9781592138371
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.1"