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Unbecoming Americans - Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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Unbecoming Americans - Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest
port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens
the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it
considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black
radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial,
annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The
island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America,
came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to
recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of
the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection
of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African-American writers-C.L.R.
James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright-Joseph
Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a
condition he terms "alienage," as a standpoint from which to
imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the
contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and
an empire at the dawn of "The American Century." Building on
scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation,
the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic
forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative,
to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship.
Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in
opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years
after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today.
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