Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index.
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.
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National characteristics, American.
Amnesia
Nativism
Xenophobia
Pluralism (Social sciences)
National characteristics, American, in literature.