DeAne's American Conversation: shifting notions of identity: In 201, "remaking America," we are interested in the many ways Americans reconsider and revise their nation, their national self-understandi...
The earlier post includes links to three recent publications of interest to our current in-class conversations: a novel, a memoir, and an non-fiction work.
Notable: lots of American thinking about identity, esp. racial factors, in this historical context. And a reminder that these several factors (class, gender, sexuality, etc.) are "historically bound." That is, the concerns may be perennial, but how they are conceptualized and acted upon (or acted out) changes across time.
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