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Book SynopsisIn Violent America, Ariane Chebel d''Appollonia counterintuitively analyzes why and how various ethnoracial groups proactively and instrumentally use different forms of violence to achieve their goals. Combining a historical analysis spanning the centuries with an examination of contemporary problems, she considers how and why ethnoracial groups can be both perpetrators and victims of violence, why some minority groups react differently to violence in comparable situations, and what the consequences are today for politics in both America and Europe.
Violent America thus explores the effects of physical and discursive violence on the ways in which ethnoracial groups define themselves. Chebel d''Appollonia argues that the use of ethnoracial violence has been and remains an effective identity strategy by which all ethnoracial groups are able to integrate themselves into the mainstream of American society. She provides an alternative way of under
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Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia (public affairs and administration, Rutgers Univ., Newark), who has published extensively in English and French, explores why ethnoracial violence remains an enduring feature of US society despite fundamental transformations in the country's institutions and the composition of its population.
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