True faith and allegiance : immigration and American civil nationalism / Noah Pickus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickus, Noah M. Jedidiah, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americanization--History.

Americanization.

Citizenship--United States--History.

Citizenship.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration and citizenship of the past two decades. Drawing on political theory, history, and law, he argues for a renewed civic nationalism that melds principles and peoplehood. This tradition of civic nationalism held sway at America's founding and in the Progressive Era. Pickus explores how, from James Madison to Teddy Roosevelt, its proponents sought to combine reason and reverence and to balance inclusion and exclusion. He takes us through controversies over citizenship for blacks and the rights of aliens at the nation's founding, examines the interplay of ideas and institutions in the Americanization movement in the 1910's and 1920's, and charts how both left and right promoted a policy of neglect toward immigrants and toward citizenship in the second half of the twentieth century. True Faith and Allegiance shows that contemporary debates over a range of immigration and citizenship policies cannot be resolved by appeals to fixed notions of creed or culture, but require a supple civic nationalism that bridges the gap between immigrants' needs and American principles and practices. It is critical reading for scholars, policy makers, and all who care about immigrants and about America.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Nation's Founding

Chapter 2. Alienage and Nationalism in the Early Republic

Chapter 3. The Free White Clause of 1790

Chapter 4. Americanization and Pluralism in the Progressive Era

Chapter 5. Nationalism in the Progressive Era

Chapter 6. World War I and the Turn to Coercion

Chapter 7. Immigration and Citizenship at Century's End

Chapter 8. A New Civic Nationalism

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612086687

9781282086685

1282086685

9781400826919

1400826918

OCLC:

335103634