| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States. Ed. by Norbert Finzsch and Dietmar Schirmer. (Washington: German Historical Institute, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xl, 422 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-59158-9.)

In 1941 E. M. Forster wrote regretfully: "Tolerance is a dull virtue. It is boring. . . . No one has ever written an ode to tolerance, or raised a statue to her." 1

While the authors in this volume are by no means writing odes to intolerance, they certainly have done a thorough job of dissecting those who did. The editors have persuaded first-rate scholars to grapple with aspects of nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States, using methodologies that derive from Michel Foucault, as well as traditional ones. The essays are divided into three parts, with both sides of the Atlantic evenly represented: 1. Concepts of National Identity and the Symbolic Construction of Nations; 2. The Social and Cultural Practice of Racism; 3. Race, Gender, Body, Biology. . . .

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