American Multiculturalism after 9/11

Derek Rubin lectures in theAmerican Studies Programat Utrecht University. Jaap Verheul is associate professor of history and director of the American Studies Program at Utrecht University.

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Derek Rubin lectures in theAmerican Studies Programat Utrecht University. Jaap Verheul is associate professor of history and director of the American Studies Program at Utrecht University.

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Introduction

Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul

Multicultural Boundary Crossings

Multiculturalism and Immigration

Paul Lauter

Native-Immigrant Boundaries and Ethnic and Racial Inequalities

Richard Alba

Coherence, Difference, and Citizenship: A Genealogy of Multiculturalism

Ed Jonker

Cultural Reflections of the Unthinkable

Indecent Exposure: Picturing the Horror of 9/11

Rob Kroes

"The Dead Are Our Redeemers": Culture, Belief, and United 93

Phillip E. Wegner

Real American Heroes: Attacking Multiculturalism through the Discourse of Heroic Sacrifice

Michan Andrew Connor

"America under Attack": Unity and Division after 9/11

Mathilde Roza

"This Godless Democracy": Terrorism, Multiculturalism, and American Self-Criticism in John Updike

John-Paul Colgan

Multiculturalism in American History Textbooks before and after 9/11

Rachel Hutchins-Viroux

Transatlantic Dialogues

A Kinder, Gentler Europe? Islam, Christianity, and the Divergent Multiculturalisms of the New West

Patrick Hyder Patterson

Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Perspective

Johanna C. Kardux

Are We All Americans? 9/11 and Discourses of Multiculturalism in the Netherlands

Jaap Kooijman

"How could this have happened in Holland?"

American Perceptions of Dutch Multiculturalism after 9/11

Jaap Verheul

About the Contributors

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