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082 0 4 _a305.800973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBorstelmann, Thomas
_eautore
245 1 0 _aJust Like Us :
_bThe American Struggle to Understand Foreigners /
_cThomas Borstelmann.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tI. The Challenge of Contact with Foreigners --
_tII. Freedom: American Culture as Human Nature --
_tIII. Inbound: Immigrants from Internal Threat to Incorporation --
_tIV. Lurking: Communists and the Threat of Captivity --
_tV. Outbound: U.S. Expansion Into Foreign Lands --
_tVI. Subversion: The Power of American Culture in a Global Era --
_tConclusion: Not So Foreign After All --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAmericans have long considered themselves a people set apart, but 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 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 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aAmericanization.
650 0 _aCold War
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCold War-Social aspects-United States.
650 0 _aCultural awareness
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCultural awareness-United States.
650 0 _aCultural pluralism
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCultural pluralism-United States-History.
650 0 _aExceptionalism
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aExceptionalism-United States-History.
650 0 _aGlobalization
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aGlobalization-Social aspects-United States-History.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American
_xHistory.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American-History.
650 0 _aRace awareness
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aRace awareness-United States-History.
650 0 _aUnited States-Race relations-History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/bors19352
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231550352
856 4 2 _3Cover
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