A Forgetful Nation
On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2005
232 pages
978-0-8223-8703-9 (ISBN)
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The cultural workings of immigration and exclusion in U.S. history.
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Ali Behdad is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
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
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
