Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: On Studying Stories of Political Peoplehood 1
4. Part One. Theorizing Peoplehood
5. One. Stories of Peoplehood and the Spiral of Politics 19
6. Two. A Theory of the Politics of People Building 37
7. Three. Narrative Structures and the Politics of Peoplehood 67
8. Four. Personal Stories and Communal Stories in the Politics of Peoplehood 93
9. Part two. Exploring American Peoplehood
10. Five. Individual Rights in American Stories of Peoplehood 121
11. Six. Contesting Meaning and Membership in American Peoplehood 145
12. Part three. Moderating Peoplehood
13. Seven. From Providentialism and Exceptionalism to a Politics of Moderate Peoplehood 189
14. Eight. The American “Promiseland” and Mexican Immigrants 219
15. Nine. Multiple Citizenships and the Legacies of Imperialism 247
16. Epilogue 265
17. Acknowledgments 269
18. Notes 271
19. References 281
20. Index 303