A Forgetful Nation : On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Behdad, Ali, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Émigration et immigration > Dans la litterature.
Xenophobie > Aspect politique > Histoire > États-Unis.
Etnische betrekkingen.
Nationalisme.
Vreemdelingenhaat.
Culturele identiteit.
Mythevorming.
Beleid.
Immigratie.
Race relations.
Nativism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, American.
Ethnic relations.
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Cultural pluralism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Émigration et immigration dans la litterature.
Diversite culturelle > États-Unis > Histoire.
Xenophobie > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvements nativistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Amnesie > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Cultural pluralism > United States > History.
Xenophobia > Political aspects > United States > History.
Nativism > History.
Amnesia > Political aspects > United States > History.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect politique > Histoire.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects > History.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Ethnic relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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