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Real Americans - National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution (Hardcover)
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Real Americans - National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution (Hardcover)
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On January 6, 2021, white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and
other supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol
in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential
election. The insurrection was widely denounced as an attack on the
Constitution, and the subsequent impeachment trial was framed as a
defense of constitutional government. What received little
attention is that the January 6 insurrectionists themselves
justified the violence they perpetrated as a defense of the
Constitution; after battling the Capitol police and breaking doors
and windows, the mob marched inside, chanting “Defend your
liberty, defend the Constitution.” In Real Americans: National
Identity, Violence, and the Constitution Jared A. Goldstein boldly
challenges the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the
Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American. In his
careful analysis of US history, Goldstein demonstrates the
well-established pattern of movements devoted to defending the
power of dominant racial, ethnic, and religious groups, which
deploy the rhetoric of constitutional devotion to express their
national visions and justify their violence. Goldstein describes
this as constitutional nationalism, an ideology that defines being
an American as standing with, and by, the Constitution. This
history includes the Ku Klux Klan’s self-declared mission to
“protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,”
which served to justify its campaign of violence in the 1860s and
1870s to prevent Black people from exercising the right to vote;
Protestant Americans who felt threatened by the growing population
of Catholics and Jews and organized mass movements to defend their
status and power by declaring that the Constitution was made for a
Protestant nation; native-born Americans who resisted the rising
population of immigrants and who mobilized to exclude the newcomers
and their alien ideas; corporate leaders arguing that regulation is
unconstitutional and un-American; and Timothy McVeigh, who believed
he was defending the Constitution by killing 168 people with a
truck bomb. Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the
Constitution reveals how the Constitution as the central embodiment
and common ground of American identity has long been used to
promote conflicting versions of American identity and to justify
hatred, violence, and exclusion.
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