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The Resource What changed when everything changed : 9/11 and the making of national identity, Joseph Margulies

What changed when everything changed : 9/11 and the making of national identity, Joseph Margulies

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Summary
Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis. Margulies demonstrates that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape--especially support for counterterror policies like torture and hostility to Islam--American identity is not only darker than it was before September 11, 2001, but substantially more repressive than it was immediately after the attacks. These repressive attitudes, Margulies shows us, have taken hold even as the terrorist threat has diminished significantly. Contrary to what is widely imagined, at the moment of greatest perceived threat, when the fear of another attack "hung over the country like a shroud," favorable attitudes toward Muslims and Islam were at record highs, and the suggestion that America should torture was denounced in the public square. Only much later did it become socially acceptable to favor "enhanced interrogation" and exhibit clear anti-Muslim prejudice. Margulies accounts for this unexpected turn and explains what it means to the nation's identity as it moves beyond 9/11. We express our values in the same language, but that language can hide profound differences and radical changes in what we actually believe."National identity," he writes, "is not fixed, it is made."
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource
Contents
  • "What the United States of America is all about at our core"
  • "The ceaseless striving to live out our true creed"
  • The dark side of the creed
  • Race and religion in national identity
  • The punitive turn
  • "A fight for our principles"
  • "We need to bring the news to people"
  • "A war for the survival of America"
  • "Think the unthinkable"
  • "Can you think of anything more un-American?"
  • "Must we sell our birthright?"
  • The paradox of the Obama era
  • All will be as it ought to be
Isbn
9780300195200
Instance
Label
What changed when everything changed : 9/11 and the making of national identity
Title
What changed when everything changed
Title remainder
9/11 and the making of national identity
Statement of responsibility
Joseph Margulies
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis. Margulies demonstrates that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape--especially support for counterterror policies like torture and hostility to Islam--American identity is not only darker than it was before September 11, 2001, but substantially more repressive than it was immediately after the attacks. These repressive attitudes, Margulies shows us, have taken hold even as the terrorist threat has diminished significantly. Contrary to what is widely imagined, at the moment of greatest perceived threat, when the fear of another attack "hung over the country like a shroud," favorable attitudes toward Muslims and Islam were at record highs, and the suggestion that America should torture was denounced in the public square. Only much later did it become socially acceptable to favor "enhanced interrogation" and exhibit clear anti-Muslim prejudice. Margulies accounts for this unexpected turn and explains what it means to the nation's identity as it moves beyond 9/11. We express our values in the same language, but that language can hide profound differences and radical changes in what we actually believe."National identity," he writes, "is not fixed, it is made."
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Margulies, Joseph
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
  • National characteristics, American
  • Nationalism
  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
  • Terrorism
  • United States
  • HISTORY
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • National characteristics, American
  • Nationalism
  • United States
Label
What changed when everything changed : 9/11 and the making of national identity, Joseph Margulies
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
"What the United States of America is all about at our core" -- "The ceaseless striving to live out our true creed" -- The dark side of the creed -- Race and religion in national identity -- The punitive turn -- "A fight for our principles" -- "We need to bring the news to people" -- "A war for the survival of America" -- "Think the unthinkable" -- "Can you think of anything more un-American?" -- "Must we sell our birthright?" -- The paradox of the Obama era -- All will be as it ought to be
Control code
ocn841809188
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780300195200
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 22573/ctt2zzbxb
  • ce2fda6a-8d20-4d01-8db9-7ca13ce6bbac
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not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)841809188
Label
What changed when everything changed : 9/11 and the making of national identity, Joseph Margulies
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
"What the United States of America is all about at our core" -- "The ceaseless striving to live out our true creed" -- The dark side of the creed -- Race and religion in national identity -- The punitive turn -- "A fight for our principles" -- "We need to bring the news to people" -- "A war for the survival of America" -- "Think the unthinkable" -- "Can you think of anything more un-American?" -- "Must we sell our birthright?" -- The paradox of the Obama era -- All will be as it ought to be
Control code
ocn841809188
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780300195200
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 22573/ctt2zzbxb
  • ce2fda6a-8d20-4d01-8db9-7ca13ce6bbac
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)841809188

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