"We're all Americans now."

Dear David, Thanks for your interest in my talk and the book and advanced publicity!
I suppose we're all Americans now, of one sort or another - some with voting rights and some not! Travelling through Italy over the weekend the heightened security at all European airports indicates the US administration has laid down the law: increase your border security and surveillance or we will require you all to apply for visas! It is still an American world then although there are levels of Americanness - in the US and outside. best wishes, Jonathan

Black Innocence

is perhaps a 'rage' at America and asks the rather obvious question: "what does it take to be/become an American?" Its a question I understand to be as normal for an American citizen as for an immigrant, to ask speculatively. What do you think? Nick Cull who used to be the chair of American Studies at Leicester, and I used to discuss the Black Atlantic, et al, so perhaps this may fit into some new 'spectacle' of incoherency at some stage of the dialogue. I enjoyed your talk immensely and was intrigued to learn that Guy de bord is still alive and well in Liverpool. David Wilde

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:09:40 -0000 "Harris, Jonathan" wrote: thanks, David- and thank you for the book I got from you. I'll read it and get back to you! best wishes Jonathan Harris @ Liverpool