The Logic of Democratic Exclusion African

Kook makes the provocative argument that membership in democracies is inherently exclusionary, and that national exclusion is a tacit requirement for successfully democratic regimes.

Rebecca B. Kook teaches in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel

Preface and Acknowledgments

vii

Part 1 Democracies and the Politics of Collective National Identity

Introduction

3

(16)

National Identity and Collective Action

19

(22)

Part 2 The Political and Legal Construction of Collective National Identity

Representing American National Identity: the Shifting Status of African Americans

41

(16)

National Identity in Israel: being a Palestinian in a Jewish State

57

(24)

The Legal Construction of Membership in Israel

81

(26)

Part 3 The Symbolic Contours of Identity

Reinventing the Invisible Man: African Americans and the American Symbolic Indexes of Identity

107

(14)

Nationalizing Religion: the Israeli National Symbolic Matrix

121

(18)

Part 4 Explaining Inclusion: the Search for Stability

Re-writing National Identity---From Blacks to African Americans

139

(24)

The Crisis of Israeli Collective National Identity

163

(18)

Conclusion

181

(8)

Bibliography

189

(20)

Index

209

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The Logic of Democratic Exclusion African Americans in the United States and Palestinian Citizens in Israel

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