Title	Misreading America : scriptures and difference / Vincent L. Wimbush, Lalruatkima and Melissa Renee Reid
Imprint	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199975419.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource

This collection of ethnographic essays illuminates the 'reading' of the United States of America as a scriptural formation by focusing on the scripturalizing practices of peoples of color. Through the uses of 'scriptures' (broadly defined) majoritarian readings have long (over)determined the nation-its origins, historical development, diversification, cultural boundaries values, textures, and representations. The result is a scriptural formation that functions as a reading formation with a fixed, texted center, a type of scriptural fundamentalism, which seeks to manage and undermine difference

1. Ethnicity -- Religious aspects
2. Ethnicity -- United States
3. Identification (Religion)
4. Minorities -- Religious life -- United States
5. Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions
6. Assimilation (Sociology) -- United States
7. United States -- Ethnic relations