Columns:: Prof’s book examines U.S. patriotism

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Columns::November 5, 2001

Weekly Reader

Prof’s book examines U.S. patriotism

$17.95 (paper)
State University of New York Press

Published in 1996, American Patriotism in a Global Society is about a tension that structures the politics of democracies, between allegiance to group and allegiance to laws that transcend groups. It is written by Betty Jean Craige, UGA University Professor of Comparative Literature and director of the UGA Center for Humanities and Arts.
Craige argues that the transformation of the world into a global society is causing a resurgence of tribalism at the same time it is inspiring the ideology of political holism--the understanding of human society as an evolving global system of interdependent individuals, cultures and nations.
Craige examines the “patriotic” resistance to globalization in the United States through a series of case studies, including the Iran Contra scandal, the 1988 presidential campaign, the controversy over NEH funding of Ali Mazrui’s television documentary The Africans, and the opposition to the Persian Gulf War. Her selections were based upon their potential for revealing the conflict in values that is structuring American politics in the age of globalization.

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