Title Genus Americanus Hitting the Road in Search of America's Identity / Loren Ghiglione, Alyssa Karas, Dan Tham

Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Summary "A seventy-year-old Northwestern journalism professor, Loren Ghiglione, and two twenty-something Northwestern journalism students, Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham, climbed into a minivan and embarked on a three-month, twenty-eight state, 14,063-mile road trip in search of America's identity. After interviewing 150 Americans about contemporary identity issues, they wrote this book, which is part oral history, part shoe-leather reporting, part search for America's future, part memoir, and part travel journal. On their journey they retraced Mark Twain's travels across America-from Hannibal, Missouri, to Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle. They hoped Twain's insights into the late nineteenth-century soul of America would help them understand the America of today and the ways that our cultural fabric has shifted. Their interviews focused on issues of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status. The timely trip occurred as the United States was poised to replace president Barack Obama, an icon of multiculturalism and inclusion, with Donald Trump, whose white-identity agenda promoted exclusion and division. What they learned along the way paints an engaging portrait of the country during this crucial moment of ideological and political upheaval"-- Provided by publisher Subject Ghiglione, Loren -- Travel National characteristics, American -- History -- 21st century Multiculturalism -- United States -- History -- 21st century Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History -- 21st century Group identity -- United States -- History -- 21st century Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 21st century Cultural pluralism Ethnicity Group identity Multiculturalism National characteristics, American Politics and government Travel SUBJECT United States -- Description and travel -- 21st century United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Karas, Alyssa, author Tham, Dan, author ISBN 0820358010 9780820358017

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