Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants
by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native
Americans and Eastern European immigrants  In this cultural
history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina
Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the
intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion,
challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary
and cultural production. Deeply grounded in a wide-ranging archive
of Indigenous and new immigrant writing and visual
culture—including congressional acts, testimonies, news reports,
cartoons, poetry, fiction, and silent film—this book brings
together voices of Native and immigrant America. Â Stanciu
shows that, although Native Americans and new immigrants faced
different legal and cultural obstacles to citizenship, the
challenges they faced and their resistance to assimilation and
Americanization often ran along parallel paths. Both struggled
against idealized models of American citizenship that dominated
public spaces. Both participated in government-sponsored
Americanization efforts and worked to gain agency and sovereignty
while negotiating naturalization. Â Rethinking popular
understandings of Americanization, Stanciu argues that the new
immigrants and Native Americans at the heart of this book expanded
the narrow definitions of American identity.
General
Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity |
Release date: |
March 2023 |
Authors: |
Cristina Stanciu
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-22435-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-300-22435-4 |
Barcode: |
9780300224351 |
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