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American Society Throughout America's History, American Society Term Paper

American Society Throughout America's history, American society has been plagued with racial division and civil rights movements. Ethnic groups vie for their rights, protesting imperialistic democracy. The above quote by Woodrow Wilson, is a reiteration of the same struggle for the American identity in the midst of civil rights chaos. What the American public and the political leaders strive to instill on a reluctant society is the concept of Americanism, an ideal that allows all national groups to become one. But in their naive attempts they have not considered that America is the result of these same nations.

Americanism is merely an ideal that presents the notion of liberalization, suppression of racism, equality and the harmonious existence of all nation groups. However,...

Hence equality or harmonious existence is impossible. W.E.B. Dubois for instance in his book Quest for the Silver Fleece [1989, p.362-370] talks about a "free community." But he also rejects the notion because he believes a free community in the wrong hands, those acting against the interest of the free individuals, is as much subjected to imperialistic suppression as in an oppressed slave society. He attributes Realpolitik power as the hurdle to real freedom and to the establishment of the ideal American. In this light Wilson's defense of the American group cannot be validated.
Similarly, on an individual level if we were to consider…

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Baldwin, James. Another Country. 1962. New York: Laurel Books, 1988.

DuBois, W.E.B. The Quest of the Silver Fleece. 1911. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1989.

Moraga, Cherrie L. Loving in the War Years, 2nd edition South End Press, 2000

Norman Foerster and W.W. Pierson., Jr.'s American Ideals (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917), pp. 178-182.
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