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A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States
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ISBN13: 9780822336068
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 18 2005
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Behdad shows how political, cultural, and legal texts have articulated American anxiety about immigration from the Federalist period to the present day. He reads texts both well-known--J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass--and lesser-known--such as the writings of nineteenth-century nativists and of public health officials at Ellis Island. In the process, he highlights what is obscured by narratives and texts celebrating the United States as an open-armed haven for everyone: the country's violent beginnings, including its conquest of Native Americans, brutal exploitation of enslaved Africans, and colonialist annexation of French and Mexican territories; a recurring and fierce strand of nativism; the need for a docile labor force; and the harsh discipline meted out to immigrant aliens today, particularly along the Mexican border.
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