Ali Behdad

A Forgetful Nation

On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The cultural workings of immigration and exclusion in U.S. history

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336198
• ISBN-10: 0822336197
• Artikelnr.: 21837742

Autorenporträt

Ali Behdad

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction: Nation and Immigration 1
Imagining America: Forgeful Fathers and the Founding Myths of the Nation
23
Historicizing America: Tocqueville and the Ideology of Exceptionalism 48
Immigrant America: Liberal Discourse of Immigration and the Ritual of
Self-Renewal 76
Discourses of Exclusion: Nativism and the Imaginging of a “White Nation”
111
Practices of Exclusion: National Borders and the Disciplining of Aliens
143
Conclusion: Remembering 9/11 169
Notes 117
Bibliography 193
Index 205