A forgetful nation
Subtitle: on immigration and cultural identity in the United States
By: Ali Behdad.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: National characteristics, American; Amnesia -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Nativism -- History; Xenophobia -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States -- History; National characteristics, American, in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : nation and immigration; title: Imagining America : forgetful fathers and the founding myths of the nation; title: Historicizing America : Tocqueville and the ideology of exceptionalism; title: Immigrant America : liberal discourse of immigration and the ritual of self-renewal; title: Discourses of exclusion : nativism and the imagining of a "white nation"; title: Practices of exclusion : national borders and the disciplining of aliens; title: Conclusion : remembering 9/11.