Violent America : : The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society / / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Chebel d'Appollonia, Ariane,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.) :; 1 chart

In Violent America, Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia counterintuitively analyzes why and how various ethno-racial groups proactively and instrumentally use different forms of violence to achieve their goals. Combining a historical analysis spanning the centuries with an examination of contemporary problems, she considers how and why ethno-racial groups can be both perpetrators and victims of violence, why minority groups react differently to violence in comparable situations, and what the consequences are today for politics in both America and Europe.Violent America thus explores the effects of physical and discursive violence on the ways in which ethno-racial groups define themselves. Chebel d'Appollonia argues that the use of ethno-racial violence has been and remains an effective identity strategy by which all ethno-racial groups are able to integrate themselves into the mainstream of American society. She provides an alternative way of understanding the complex relationship between migrant phobia, multiethnic grievances, and inter-group conflicts in America.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note about Quotations -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 LESSONS FROM THE PAST -- Introduction -- 1. Violence as a Proactive Response to Adversity -- 2. Violence as the Cause of Ethnoracial Identities -- 3. From Past to Present Ethnoracial Identification Strategy -- 4. The Dynamics of Contention -- Part 2 CURRENT TRAJECTORIES OF VIOLENCE IN POST-RACIAL AMERICA -- Introduction -- 5. Two Tales of One Nation -- 6. From Identity Politics to Ethnoracial Identity Crisis -- 7. Centrifugal Dynamics of Ethnoracial Fragmentation -- Part 3 CURRENT LESSONS FROM AMERICA -- 8. Is a Violent Society America’s Only Possible Future? -- 9. Is Violent America Europe’s Future? -- Conclusion: Lessons for the Future -- Notes -- Index