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The Two Faces of American Freedom

Aziz Rana

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ISBN 9780674284333

Publication Date: 04/07/2014

432 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Aziz Rana is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

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On WBUR’s Radio Open Source, listen to Rana explain how America was founded as a homeland for exclusivist settlers and only much later reconceived as a nation of multiethnic, multicultural immigrants
At Jacobin Magazine, read an interview with Rana in which he discusses the United States as a “settler empire”
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