American CivilizationInstitute for the Study of the Americas, 2007 - 105 páginas This thought-provoking book demonstrates that, far from being a unique entity, the United States is the most American of nations. It shares with its neighbors to the south an aspiration for equal opportunities and freedoms in a society both defined and divided by race. As Charles A. Jones points out, the United States is distinguished from its neighbors chiefly by the greater material capabilities it has been able to apply to this historic task. Although it is sometimes regarded as Western, Jones points out the extremes to which the United States differs from Western Europe: from distinctive levels and styles of religiosity to public violence to respect for law to concern with material accumulation. These traits, far from constituting a claim to exceptionality, bind the U.S. firmly to the rest of the American hemisphere. In fact, Jones argues, it was separated only by the strange accident of historiography that created a Latin America little more than a century ago. He projects that these perceived differences between the United States and its southern neighbors will fade in the near future, and looks forward to a truly inclusive America. |
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... racial democracy ' , the terms of debate have generally been set by creole elites . Moreover , the republican pro- ject in post - independence America did not admit of any continuation of the early - modern solution to this issue ...
... racial ambivalence . At one point Martins claims that few of those who lived in the Brazilian backlands were black , because blacks ( as slaves until 1888 ) did not have the opportunity to drop out of society in this way . Later he ...
... racial anxieties only through a combination of sublimation and incarceration church and prison that sidelines a significant slice of national income into largely unproductive activity . - - - 79 Robert L. Zangrando , ' Lynching , ' in ...