Mariana Ortega is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University. Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her many books include Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self and Identity Politics Reconsidered (coedited with Michael Hames-García, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya).

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: The Race of Nationalism
Mariana Ortega and Linda Martín Alcoff

PART 1. FREEDOM

1. Cultural Affirmation, Power, and Dissent: Two Midcentury U.S. Debates
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab

2. When Fear Interferes with Freedom: Infantilization of the American Public Seen through the Lens of Post-9/11 Literature for Children
Kyoo Lee

3. Muslim Women and the Rhetoric of Freedom
Alia Al-Saji

PART 2. UNITY

4. Faith in Unity: The Nationalist Erasure of Multiplicity
María Lugones and Joshua M. Price

5. Muslim Immigrants in Post-9-11 American Politics: The "Exception" Population as an Intrinsic Element of American Liberalism
Falguni A. Sheth

6. Situating Race and Nation in the U.S. Context: Methodology, Interdisciplinarity, and the Unresolved Role of Comparative Inquiry
Mindy Peden

7. Citizenship and Political Friendship: Two Hearts; One Passport
Eduardo Mendieta

PART 3. HOMELAND

8. On the Limits of Postcolonial Identity Politics
Namita Goswami

9. Theorizing the Aesthetic Homeland: Racialized Aesthetic Nationalism in Daily Life and the Art World
Monique Roelofs

List of Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index