Gary Gerstle
Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge
I’m Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. I study American history. I'm particularly interested in immigration, race and nationality. I'm interested in politics and I'm interested in power: who has it in America and who doesn’t.
EXPs by Gary Gerstle
There are two traditions of nationalism in America. One is what I call civic nationalism, and the other is what I call racial nationalism.
American government forms another paradox equally puzzling to the paradox of civic versus racial nationalism.
The world is changing fast. Certain principles that could not be challenged in the heyday of neoliberalism are now challenged every day.