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

Behdad, Ali, 1961-

Durham, N.C. [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 2005

XVII, 212 S. : Ill. ; 25 cm

Englisch

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

Literaturverz. S. [193] - 203. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

(pbk) : £14.95

978-0-8223-3619-8 (pbk 2006); 0-8223-3619-7 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 0-8223-3606-5 (cloth : acid-free paper)

2005009528

013245730, GBA556850

9780822336198

OCoLC: 835695351     

OCoLC: 59280122 (aus SWB)     

LB 52610  | MS 3600  | LB 48610      Ähnliche Literatur

E184.A1

305.800973 ; 305.800973; 5090 ddsu,sred ; 305.8/00973

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 71.52 (Kulturelle Prozesse) <Soziologie>

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26

*USA ; Einwanderung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Kulturelle Identität ; Geschichte     Zum Register

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