Table of Contents

1. Origins: Exceptionalism and American Cultural Identity; 2. Dispossession: Native American Responses to the Ideology of Exceptionalism; 3. Exceptionalism in the Nineteenth Century; 4. Annexation: Chicano Responses to the Ideology of Exceptionalism; 5. Westerns and Westward Expansion; 6. Contemporary Interpretations of Exceptionalism; Appendix: El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan