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

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

Behdad, Ali

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral United States HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0822336197
ISBN13: 9780822336198
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 18 2005
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In A Forgetful Nation, the renowned postcolonialism scholar Ali Behdad turns his attention to the United States. Offering a timely critique of immigration and nationalism, Behdad takes on an idea central to American national mythology: that the United States is a nation of immigrants, welcoming and generous to foreigners. He argues that Americans' treatment of immigrants and foreigners has long fluctuated between hospitality and hostility, and that this deep-seated ambivalence is fundamental to the construction of national identity. Building on the insights of Freud, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida, he develops a theory of the historical amnesia that enables the United States to disavow a past and present built on the exclusion of others.

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