From the Shining City on a Hill to a Great Metropolis on a Plain
American Stories of Immigration and Peoplehood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R M Smith (0000-0001-6983-9232, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-44 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2010.0060 |
| OpenAlex | W179613019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Americans have always been divided over whether to welcome or to discourage immigration. But virtually all American leaders have rested their views on notions that the United States has unique providential or world-historical significance-as an asylum for the world's oppressed, as a model to the world, or even as the world's leader. Today, it is normatively desirable for the U.S. to view itself not as the world's "city on a hill" but simply as one worthy political society among many others. Whether such a view can be made politically appealing to most Americans, however, remains in doubt
Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Political and Social Dynamics · Appalachian Studies and Mathematics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |