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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Multicultural Boundery Crossings
5. Multiculturalism and Immigration 23
6. Native-Immigrant Boundaries and Ethnic and Racial Inequalities 35
7. Coherence, Difference, and Citizenship: A Genealogy of Multiculturalism 51
8. Cultural Reflections of the Unthinkable
9. Indecent Exposure: Picturing the Horror of 9/11 67
10. “The Dead Are Our Redeemers”: Culture, Belief, and United 93 81
11. Real American Heroes: Attacking Multiculturalism through the Discourse of Heroic Sacrifice 93
12. “America under Attack”: Unity and Division after 9/11 105
13. “This Godless Democracy”: Terrorism, Multiculturalism, and American Self- Criticism in John Updike 119
14. Multiculturalism in American History Textbooks before and after 9/11 133
15. Transatlantic Dialogues
16. A Kinder, Gentler Europe? Islam, Christianity, and the Divergent Multiculturalisms of the New West 147
17. Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Perspective 165
18. Are We All Americans? 9/11 and Discourses of Multiculturalism in the Netherlands 181
19. “How could this have happened in Holland?” American Perceptions of Dutch Multiculturalism after 9/11 191
20. About the Contributors 207
21. Index 213