“One Nation under God?”: Ethnicity and Identity in Modern America

This paper examines the sources of “Anglo-Saxonism”, the invention of English ethnicity and the manner in which the latter came to fuse with Protestant Christianity from the 16th century onwards in creating the notion of the WASP. We then go on to study the degree to which colonial American society...

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Main Author: Gary D. German
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: TELEMME - UMR 6570 2002-06-01
Series:Amnis
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/amnis/86