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Notes

1. Thanks to Barb Biesecker for helpful comments. Justin Lewis, Constructing Public Opinion (New York: Columbia University Press), 2001.

2. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World, 2004; Pew Hispanic Center, From 200 Million to 300 Million: The Numbers Behind Population Growth, 2006; Irene Bloemraad, Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006); Abraham T. Mosisa, “The Role of Foreign-Born Workers in the US Economy,” Monthly Labor Review, May 2002: 3–14; Marta Tienda, “Demography and the Social Contract,” Demography 39, no. 4 (2002): 587–616; Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller, The Age of Migration, 3rd ed. (New York: Guilford Press, 2003); US Census Bureau News, “Minority Population Tops 100 Million,” 17 May 2007; Pew Hispanic Center, Statistical Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States, 2006, 2008; “Open Up,” Economist, 5 January 2008: 3–5.

3. Theda Skocpol, “The Narrowing of Civic Life,” American Prospect, June 2004: A5–A7; Bruce H. Webster Jr. and Alemayehu Bishaw, Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data from the 2005 American Community Survey, US Census Bureau, American Community Survey Reports, ACS-02, 2006; Susan Sered Starr and Rushika Fernandopulle, Uninsured in America: Life & Death in the Land of Opportunity, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007); Michael D. Yates, “A Statistical Portrait of the U.S. Working Class,” Monthly Review 56, no. 11 (2005): 12–31; Will Hutton, A Declaration of Interdependence: Why America Should Join the World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003); Gary Younge, “In the US, Class War Still Means Just One Thing: The Rich Attacking the Poor,” Guardian, 3 September 2007; Minor quoted in Isabel Sawhill and John E. Morton, Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?, Economic Mobility Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2007; Jared Bernstein, All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2006); Jacob S. Hacker, The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement and How You Can Fight Back (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); Shawn Tully, “A Profit Gusher of Epic Proportions,” Fortune, 15 April 2007.

4. Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (Hartford, CT: American Publishing, 1874).

5. “Ever Higher Society, Ever Harder to Ascend,” Economist, 1 January 2005: 22–24; Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs the Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006).

6. Tully, loc. cit.; Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong, “Shaken and Stirred,” Atlantic Monthly, January/February 2005: 112–17; Kevin G. Hall, “The Rich are Getting Much Richer, Much Faster than Everyone Else,” McClatchy Newspapers, 3 November 2006.

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Toby Miller

Toby Miller is Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside and author and editor of over 20 volumes. His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism