Michael Skube, assistant professor of communications, recently reviewed Samuel P. Huntington’s controversial book “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity.” His review ran in the News & Observer on Sunday, July 4.
Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherford III University Professor at Harvard University, and serves as chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
In his latest book, Huntington argues that American identity has been blurred by massive immigration, and that the Anglo-Protestant political tradition on which the country was founded has been eroded by what he calls “de-nationalization.”
Huntington says that the idea of America as a melting pot has long since been discarded and the ideal of assimilation has been rejected not only by newer immigrants, but even more so by American elites in government, the media and academia.