A forgetful nation : on immigration and cultural identity in the United States /
Behdad, Ali,1961-
Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index.
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.
National characteristics, American.
Amnesia
Nativism
Xenophobia
Pluralism (Social sciences)
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.