Rogers M SmithStories of Peoplehood
The Politics and Morals of Political Membership
Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published over seventy articles and is author or co-author of the following books: The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America (with Philip A. Klinkner, 1990); Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (1997); Citizenship without Consent: The Illegal Alien in the American Polity (with Peter H. Schuck, 1985); and Liberalism and American Constitutional Law (1985, rev. ed. 1990).
Introduction: on studying stories of peoplehood
Part I. Explaining the Political Role of Stories of Peoplehood: 1. Elements of a theory of people-making
2. The role of ethically constitutive stories
Part II. Constructing Political Peoplehood in Morally Defensible Ways: 3. Ethically constitutive stories and norms of allegiance
4. A pioneering people.