Modeling citizenship Jewish and Asian American writing
Navigating deftly among historical and literary readings, Cathy Schlund-Vials examines the analogous yet divergent experiences of Asian Americans and Jewish Americans in Modeling Citizenship. She investigates how these model minority groups are shaped by the shifting terrain of naturalization law an...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423711606719 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Modeling Citizenship and Modeled Selfhood; Introduction: Perpetual Foreigners and Model Minorities: Naturalizing Jewish and Asian Americans; 1. "Who May Be Citizens of the United States": Citizenship Models in Edith Maude Eaton and Abraham Cahan; 2. Interrupted Allegiances: Indivisibilityand Transnational Pledges; 3. Utopian and Dystopian Citizenships: Visions and Revisions of the "Promised Land"; 4. Reading and Writing America: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation
- 5. Demarcating the Nation: Naturalizing Cold War Legacies and War on Terror PoliciesEpilogue: "A Sense of Loss and Anomie": Model Minorities and Twenty-First-Century Citizenship; Notes; Bibliography; Index
