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001 2005009528
003 DLC
005 20050922173618.0
008 050414s2005 ncua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005009528
020 $a0822336065 (cloth : acid-free paper)
020 $a0822336197 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE184.A1$bB34 2005
082 00 $a305.8/00973$222
100 1 $aBehdad, Ali,$d1961-
245 12 $aA forgetful nation :$bon immigration and cultural identity in the United States /$cAli Behdad.
260 $aDurham, N.C. :$bDuke University Press,$c2005.
300 $axvii, 212 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xPolitical aspects$xHistory.
650 0 $aAmnesia$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aNativism$xHistory.
650 0 $aXenophobia$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aPluralism (Social sciences)$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005009528.html