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A forgetful nation : on immigration and cultural identity in the United States / Ali Behdad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Behdad, Ali, 1961-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American.
- Amnesia--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Amnesia.
- Nativism--History.
- Nativism.
- Xenophobia--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Xenophobia.
- Cultural pluralism--United States--History.
- Cultural pluralism.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The cultural workings of immigration and exclusion in U.S. history.
- Contents:
- Introduction : nation and immigration
- Imagining America : forgetful fathers and the founding myths of the nation
- Historicizing America : Tocqueville and the ideology of exceptionalism
- Immigrant America : liberal discourse of immigration and the ritual of self-renewal
- Discourses of exclusion : nativism and the imagining of a "white nation"
- Practices of exclusion : national borders and the disciplining of aliens
- Conclusion : remembering 9/11.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613021960
- 9781283021968
- 128302196X
- 9780822387039
- 0822387034
- OCLC:
- 609309534
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