Culture Wars in America
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Culture Wars in America

A Documentary and Reference Guide

  1. 424 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Culture Wars in America

A Documentary and Reference Guide

About this book

This comprehensive documentary report on the cultural and political state of the union explores the flashpoints of the debate over American identity and values. Culture Wars in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide places the most hotly debated issues in American society in historical context. With this book in hand, the reader can more effectively evaluate the potential social and political significance of these important conflicts. Americans have never found it easy to reconcile their differences, even while sometimes achieving a remarkable unity of purpose. Although we pride ourselves on pluralism, we struggle to find common ground on our most essential principles. Since the 1980s, events covered in this volume have increased the questioning of traditional religious values, continuing immigration and globalization, the liberalization of social mores, and differing understandings of the nation's role in a post-Cold War world. Increased partisan conflict over these issues has dominated American domestic politics and policymaking. The primary source documents collected and analyzed here reflect all of these trends, while fairly representing the contending positions that shape our contemporary political reality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. 1 The U.S. Culture Wars: Historical and Contemporary
  3. 2 Differing Religious Understandings
  4. 3 Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, and The Right to Die
  5. 4 Gun Control and Gun Rights
  6. 5 Immigration
  7. 6 Sex Education, Homosexuality, and Gay Marriage
  8. 7 Science and Education
  9. 8 The U.S. Role in the World and The Global Culture War
  10. 9 The Culture Wars: Retrospect and Prospect
  11. Selected Resources
  12. Index
  13. About the Author