A forgetful nation : on immigration and cultural identity in the United States /

Behdad, Ali, 1961-,

A forgetful nation : on immigration and cultural identity in the United States / [print] Ali Behdad. - Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, (c)2005. - xvii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.



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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Amnesia--Political aspects--History.--United States
Nativism--History.
Xenophobia--Political aspects--History.--United States
Cultural pluralism--History.--United States
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.

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