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9780847685035

Tales of the State Narrative in Contemporary U.S. Politics and Public Policy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847685035

  • ISBN10:

    0847685039

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-08-14
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introductionp. 1
Winning the West, Unwelcoming the Immigrant: Alternative Stories of "America"p. 17
Constitutional Tales: Capitalist Origin Stories and U.S. Democracyp. 27
Pluralizing the American Dreamp. 39
The Storyteller in Chief: Why Presidents Like to Tell Talesp. 53
The Cycle of Representation: The House Republicans and the Contract with Americap. 63
Native Son: Stories of Self-Creation in the Judicial Politics of Clarence Thomasp. 76
Talking Straight: Narrating the Political Economy of Gay Rightsp. 89
"It's Not Just Naked Women" - Regulating Transgressive Identities in Cyberspacep. 102
Welfare Queens: Policing by the Numbersp. 113
Tales of Black Criminality: Racial Determinism and Fatal Narrativesp. 125
Welfare Migration as a Policy Rumor: A Statistical Accountingp. 139
Tales of the City: The Secret Life of Devolutionp. 150
The Entrepreneurial Gloss: The Myth of Small Business Job Growthp. 163
The Vanishing White Man: Workforce 2000 and Tales of Demographic Transformationp. 174
Schooling Stories: Three Paths, Two Tragedies, One Visionp. 184
Rumors of Apartheid: Myth and Stereotype in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Africap. 199
National Security Tales and the End of the Cold Warp. 212
NAFTA Discourse: Tales of Sovereignty, Science, and Adjustmentp. 223
Is It Global Economics or Neo-Laissez-Faire?p. 234
Referencesp. 242
Indexp. 265
About the Contributorsp. 269
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