TY - BOOK ID - 85775344 TI - Myths America Lives By : White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning AU - Hughes, Richard T. AU - Asante, Molefi Kete AU - Bellah, Robert N. PY - 2019 SN - 0252050800 0252042069 025208375X 9780252050800 9780252042065 9780252083754 9780252083754 PB - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, DB - UniCat KW - Myth KW - Nationalism KW - National characteristics, American. KW - American national characteristics KW - Demythologization KW - God KW - Gods KW - Mythology KW - Religion KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - History KW - Philosophy. KW - Foreign relations KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85775344 AB - "In the first edition of Myths America Lives By, Hughes identified the five key myths that lie at the heart of the American experience-the myths of the Chosen Nation, of Nature's Nation, of the Christian Nation, of the Millennial Nation, and of the Innocent Nation. Drawing on a range of dissenting voices, Hughes shows that by canonizing these seemingly harmless myths of national identity as absolute truths, America risks undermining the sweepingly egalitarian promise of the Declaration of Independence. Hughes demonstrates that Americans must rethink these myths in the spirit of extraordinary humility if the United States is to fulfil its true promise as a nation. Hughes locates the roots of each myth in a different period of America's development, and from each of these periods he finds stirring critiques offered by marginalized commentators-especially African Americans and Native Americans-who question the predominant myth of their age. This is a dialog between the mainstream mythmakers and the many critics--including Martin Luther King Jr., Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Black Elk, Anna J. Cooper, and Booker T. Washington, Malcom X, Angela Davis, and W. E. B. DuBois-whose dissent, rather than being un-American, was often grounded in a patriotic belief in the "self-evident" equality of America's fundamental creed. The second edition of Myths America Lives By continues to investigate how the myth of white supremacy has intersected and continues to intersect with foundational American myths with an entirely new introduction and updates to each myth"-- ER -