Cambridge University Press - Identity & Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, & Xenophobia in - Hardcover Book

Name: Cambridge University Press - Identity & Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, & Xenophobia in - Hardcover Book
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Cambridge University Press

Identity and IntoleranceNationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States\nAuthor(s): Norbert Finzsch, Dietmar Schirmer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521591584, 978-0521591584\nSynopsis\nIn a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research and literature which rarely transcends the limitations of a national perspective, however, and thus reproduces the limitations of its own topic. Comparative attempts are rare, if not altogether absent. Identity and Intolerance attempts to shift the focus toward comparison in order to show how German and American societies have historically confronted matters of national, racial, and ethnic inclusion and exclusion. This perspective sheds li.