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As I've done this 18 months or so of book talks for Of Thee I Sing (many traced below, w/links to videos for a lot of them!), I've focused more & more on one of my book's four categories of contested American patriotisms: mythic patriotism. Quick thread:

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So mythic patriotism is still a celebration of America (a la my 1st category, celebratory patriotism), but it's one that's exclusionary in two key & interconnected ways.
1) It celebrates a particular vision of US history, identity, etc., one I'd call overtly white-centered.
& 2) It defines anyone who disagrees with, critiques, challenges that particular vision of the US as not only outside that vision or narrative, but also & especially as outside of both patriotism (unpatriotic, treasonous) & the US (un/anti-American).
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