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liberalism neoliberalism New World liberals race postmodernism North American identity American 1848 U.S.-Mexican War Treaty of Guadalupe HidalgoSujets proches
Hemisphere, Western New World Liberal egalitarianism Americas New WorldCiter ce document
Jill Anderson, « New World Liberalism and Our Ever-Elusive North American Identities », Norteamérica, ID : 10670/1.g8y13r
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When we understand our histories and identities in terms of the transnational forces that shaped our nationalist frameworks, we discover substantial precedent for North American identities and cultural spaces. During and immediately after the War of 1848, U.S. and Mexican liberal nationalists unsuccessfully crafted transnational identities in non-fiction essays and editorials. The historical overlap of Mexican and U.S. American New World liberalism, defined as it is by awkward and uneven parallelisms, modifies common assumptions about histories of liberal nationalism and national-identity formation. North American identities have arisen in strategic contexts defined by experiences of double-(un)consciousness, disjunction, fracture, and paradox.