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Un-Pledging Allegiance: Waking up from the “‘American’ Dream”
Unformatted Document Text:  notion that America is the â€śgreatest country in the world,” with more equality, modernity,  technology, efficiency, liberty, culture, and democracy than anywhere else on the globe. The rendering invisible of structural patterns allows some flexibility in the representations of  what being American means. Hence, patriotism and nationalism, with implicitly racialized  ideological underpinnings, need not always be articulated. They are called upon, at such  moments as those after September 11 to impose the presumptions and draw the lines between  who is and who is not a trustworthy, loyal, and “true” American. After World War II, the United States emerged from a center-left alliance with France,  Britain, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against fascist forces in Germany, Italy, and  Japan. But the struggle had actually begun in 1870 when the United States and Germany were  locked in fierce rivalry for succession to Britain, who had begun its slide from the heights of Pax  Britannica. Both countries expanded their industrial base between 1870 and 1914 until they each  surpassed Britain in industrial might. Germany tried to transform the world economy into a  world empire, the â€śThousand Year Reich.” But while the kind of military conquest at the root of  such empire building had the advantage of vigor and speed, it was also expensive and united the  victims of such a strategy. Since the war did not take place on U.S. territory, the United States  emerged from the war as the hegemonic power in the world system. Internally, the United States  had constructed a welfare state that was a governing alliance dominated by economic elites, but  included the professional-managerial class, intellectuals, and organized labor. The left-led  popular front played an important role in this alliance. The choice facing the nation at this time  was whether they would continue with the center-left alliance that the left-wing of the New Deal  led by Henry Wallace called the â€śCentury of the Common Man,” or embark on the more frankly  1/16/2008 12 of 30 DRAFT

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notion that America is the â€śgreatest country in the world,” with more equality, modernity, 
technology, efficiency, liberty, culture, and democracy than anywhere else on the globe.
The rendering invisible of structural patterns allows some flexibility in the representations of 
what being American means. Hence, patriotism and nationalism, with implicitly racialized 
ideological underpinnings, need not always be articulated. They are called upon, at such 
moments as those after September 11 to impose the presumptions and draw the lines between 
who is and who is not a trustworthy, loyal, and “true” American.
After World War II, the United States emerged from a center-left alliance with France, 
Britain, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against fascist forces in Germany, Italy, and 
Japan. But the struggle had actually begun in 1870 when the United States and Germany were 
locked in fierce rivalry for succession to Britain, who had begun its slide from the heights of Pax 
Britannica. Both countries expanded their industrial base between 1870 and 1914 until they each 
surpassed Britain in industrial might. Germany tried to transform the world economy into a 
world empire, the â€śThousand Year Reich.” But while the kind of military conquest at the root of 
such empire building had the advantage of vigor and speed, it was also expensive and united the 
victims of such a strategy. Since the war did not take place on U.S. territory, the United States 
emerged from the war as the hegemonic power in the world system. Internally, the United States 
had constructed a welfare state that was a governing alliance dominated by economic elites, but 
included the professional-managerial class, intellectuals, and organized labor. The left-led 
popular front played an important role in this alliance. The choice facing the nation at this time 
was whether they would continue with the center-left alliance that the left-wing of the New Deal 
led by Henry Wallace called the â€śCentury of the Common Man,” or embark on the more frankly 
1/16/2008
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