Us Against Them

Preface    

Introduction:  Sumner’s Conjecture    

I. The Nature of Ethnocentrism    

1.  Four Theories in Search of Ethnocentrism    

2.  Ethnocentrism Reconceived     

3.  American Ethnocentrism Today    

II. Empirical Cases   

4.  Enemies Abroad    

5.  America First    

6.  Strangers in the Land    

7.  Straight versus Gay    

8.  Women’s Place    

9.  Us versus Them in the American Welfare State    

10.  Ethnocentrism in Black and White    

Conclusion:  Ethnocentrism and Political Life    

Appendix    

Notes    

References