CONTENTS
- About This Issue
The Editors
- The American Identity
Marc Pachter, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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The author examines the "enduring social contract" that underlies the United States, and argues that the current national debate about American values represents not their repudiation, but a testing of their application to broadening circumstances.
- The Changing Face of America
Audrey Singer, Immigration Fellow, The Brookings Institution
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The velocity and diversity of contemporary immigration are rapidly changing the ethnic mix in the United States, and Americans increasingly are identifying themselves in multiracial terms. A box, Who Can Be a Citizen, describes why U.S. citizenship has no ethnic boundaries.
- Profiles
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Our far-flung correspondents have profiled thirteen persons whose individual stories provide a composite-but far from complete-picture of the United States in 2005. The subjects include a wide variety of ordinary Americans in addition to a few individuals whom you may already know.
Remaining United
Debates over political, religious, and social issues have been part and parcel of American society since the inception of the United States, yet the States remain United.
- Still E Pluribus Unum? Yes
Alan Wolfe, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston (Massachusetts) College
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In the face of so much diversity, some have begun to argue that Americans lack a common culture. They're wrong.
- The Immigration Debate
Michael Barone, Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report, and Victor Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
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Two experts discuss their divergent views on the impact that current immigration trends are having in the United States.
- A Valley in California
James Houston, Novelist
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Housing subdivisions and high tech firms have replaced fields of plum trees and other crops that men such as the author's father used to harvest, and waves of immigrants have made California's Santa Clara Valley a rich blend of cultures.
- A Town in West Virginia
Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities at Harvard and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
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In this reprint from one of our earlier journals, the author reflects on what it was like to grow up in Piedmont, West Virginia. Correspondent Mark Jacobs brings us up-to-date on conditions in the small Appalachian mill town today.
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