Immigration, Assimilation, and the Cultural Construction of American National Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367597221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

Shannon Latkin Anderson

Opis

This book explores the relationship between immigration, assimilation, and narratives of American identity. The often self-congratulatory, mythic story of the U.S. as a nation of immigrants can feel hollow in a climate of minutemen brigades and deadlock on a strategy for moving forward regarding the millions of undocumented immigrants currently

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Immigration, Assimilation, and National Identity  Part I: Horace Kallen and a New Narrative, 1905-1925  2. Mass Immigration, Prelude to War, and Narratives of the Nation  3. Kallen’s Pluralist Challenge  Part II: Glazer and Moynihan Challenge the Melting Pot, 1950-1970  4. A Time for American Power (and Melting?)  5. Glazer and Moynihan’s Claim: Many and One  Part III: Huntington’s Return to Americanism, 1985-2005  6. Multiculturalism and a Domestic Clash  7. Huntington’s Fear: E Pluribus Pluribus  8. Anglo-America Under Review  9. Conclusion: The Meanings of America

O autorze

Shannon Latkin Anderson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Roanoke College.