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Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars

Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars

Silva, Eric O.

Hardcover

Series: de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences, Book 51

General Political Science

ISBN10: 3111471446
ISBN13: 9783111471440
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 217
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Much scholarship has sought to decode the polarization of American culture. Analyzing public discourse on contested realities (immigration, vaccines, electric vehicles, transgender youth medicine, campus protests of Israel, the regulation of AR-15s, and race and police brutality) reveals that Americans are not governed by coherent, diametrically opposed worldviews. U.S. culture is more fractured than dominant narratives of a polarized society would suggest. Moreover, these cultural disputes result in the generation of materials for constructing identities. Disagreement over how to define reality inevitably leads to a contest over the authority and moral worthiness of the individuals involved in the dispute. Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization analyzes how participants in public discourse stigmatize but also destigmatize their adversaries. This study not only demonstrates that there are people who are seeking to turn down the temperature in public discourse but the generic processes by which they do so.

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