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American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Details Gary Gerstle. Princeton University Press, 2001 (Updated edition 2017). Thesis Statement Gary Gerstle argues that American national identity in the twentieth century was forged through a continuous and fraught struggle between two competing civic and ethnic conceptions of … Continue reading
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