In contemporary American political culture, claims of American
exceptionalism and anxieties over its prospects have resurged as an
overarching theme in national political discourse. Yet never very
far from such debates lie animating fears associated with race.
Fears about the loss of national unity and trust often draw
attention to looming changes in the racial demographics of the body
politic. Lost amid these debates are often the more complex
legacies of racial hybridity. Anxieties over the disintegration of
the fabric of American national identity likewise forget not just
how they echo past fears of subversive racial and cultural
difference, but also exorcise as well the changing nature of work
and social interaction.
Edmund Fong s book examines the rise and resurgence of
contemporary forms of American exceptionalism as they have emerged
out of contentious debates over cultural pluralism and
multicultural diversity in the past two decades. For a brief time,
serious considerations of the force of multiculturalism entered
into a variety of philosophical and policy debates. But in the
American context, these debates often led to a reaffirmation of
some variant of American exceptionalism with the consequent
exorcism of race within the avowed norms and policy goals of
American politics. Fong explores how this "multicultural exorcism"
revitalizing American exceptionalism is not simply a novel feature
of our contemporary political moment, but is instead a recurrent
dynamic across the history of American political discourse.
By situating contemporary discourse on cultural pluralism within
the larger frame of American history, this book yields insight into
the production of hegemonic forms of American exceptionalism and
how race continues to haunt the contours of American national
identity."
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