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Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2005

Gary M. Segura
Gary M. Segura
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity. By Samuel P. Huntington. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. 448p. $27.00.

Samuel Huntington suggests in this book that American national identity is threatened by a tidal wave of Latino—primarily Mexican—immigrants who are refusing to assimilate to American “Anglo-Protestant” values, and who are facilitated in this resistance by the erosion of elite support for those very same values. That erosion is a consequence of the “cults of multiculturalism and diversity” (p. 144) that have collectively “denounced the idea of Americanization,” “downgraded the centrality of English,” and “advocated legal recognition of group rights and racial preferences” (p. 142), strong charges indeed.

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BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 640 - 642
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© 2005 American Political Science Association

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