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Lipset's American Creed


Liberty. Egalitarianism. Individualism. Populism. Laissez-faire.
These five concepts embody the "American creed" as described by author Seymour
Martin Lipset. Lipset feels that this "American creed" is representative of an
ideology that all Americans share. Lipset's argument is on shaky ground,
however, when scrutinized under the microscope of race. Racial relations in
this country do much to undermine the validity of Lipset's argument, especially
the concepts of egalitarianism and populism.
Take, for example, The Deforming Mirror of Truth, the introduction to a
book by Nathan Huggins entitled Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in
Slavery. This introduction focuses on how slavery fit into the national
consciousness. Without a doubt, there is a powerful abnormality in the founding
of America. The documents establishing a country where all men are created
equal neglect to address, or even mention by name, those people whose lives were......

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