The Politics and Perils of Peoplehood

In: International studies review, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 77-89

Abstract

A review essay on books by (1) Joel S. Migdal [Ed], Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2004); (2) John Francis Burke, Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders (College Station, TX: Texas A&M U Press, 2004; (3) Rogers Smith, Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2003); (4) Christian Joppke & Ewa Morawska [Eds], Toward Assimilation and Citizenship: Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States (New York: Palgrave-Macmnillan, 2003); & (5) Samuel Huntington, Who Are We: The Challenge to America's National Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).