Looking Ahead: eBook 3 – Borders and Belonging

The categories of gender and race examined in this volume are contested from within – debates about how a society defines its own members. In the next volume, the lens shifts outward. Borders and Belonging: Immigration and Religion takes up the questions of who gets to enter, who gets to stay, and what shared beliefs – sacred or secular – hold a nation together when its people disagree about almost everything else. If identity is the question of who we are, belonging is the question of who counts as one of us. That question, as we will see, is no less ancient, no less urgent, and no less capable of tearing a republic apart.

Avoiding Civil War II is an eight-volume digital series. This is Book 2 of 8.