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America, Amerikkka : elect nation and imperial violence
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ISBN: 1315711206 1317491246 9781315711201 9781317491224 9781317491231 9781845531577 9781845531584 Year: 2007 Publisher: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox,

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America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns of the U.S. American view of themselves as an elect nation inhabiting a ""promised land"" and enjoying a uniquely favored relation with God and a mission to spread ""redemption"" qua ""democracy"" throughout the world. This view of unique election has been coupled racial exclusivism privileging and marginalizing non-whites as citizens of the nation. In the 18th and 19th centuries a doctrine of the ""rights of man"" excluded the two primary non-white groups present in the territory, Native Americans and Africans. Manifest Destiny

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