True Faith and Allegiance : Immigration and American Civic Nationalism.
Title:
True Faith and Allegiance : Immigration and American Civic Nationalism.
Author:
Pickus, Noah.
ISBN:
9781400826919
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Naturalization and Nationhood in Three Eras -- Citizenship in Theory and Practice -- CHAPTER ONE: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Nation's Founding -- Diversity and Nationhood -- Immigration and Citizenship -- "Men Who Can Shake Off Their Attachments to Their Own Country" -- America's Civic Character -- CHAPTER TWO: Alienage and Nationalism in the Early Republic -- Partisan and Ideological Divisions -- "The Constitution Was Made for Citizens, Not Aliens" -- The Rights of Aliens, Citizens, and States -- Marshall, Madison, and Moderate Civic Nationalism -- CHAPTER THREE: The Free White Clause of 1790 -- Why White? -- "We Have the Wolf by the Ears": Obstacles to Integration -- Emancipation without Citizenship -- Civic Nationalism and the Claims of History -- CHAPTER FOUR: Americanization and Pluralism in the Progressive Era -- Citizenship and Nativism, 1830-1911 -- Americanization, Progressivism, and John Dewey's International Nationalism -- Randolph Bourne, Jane Addams, and the Practice of Pluralism -- CHAPTER FIVE: Nationalism in the Progressive Era -- Roosevelt's New Nationalism -- Naturalization and Constitutional Attachment -- Education for Citizenship -- "We Mutually Pledge to Each Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor": Frances Kellor and the National Americanization Committee -- CHAPTER SIX: World War I and the Turn to Coercion -- Tightening the Boundaries of Citizenship -- Postwar Americanization and the Specter of Separatism -- The Peril and the Promise of Civic Nationalism -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Immigration and Citizenship at Century's End -- From New Deal Nationalism to Nationality as a Human Right -- "Name One Benefit of Being a Citizen of the United States": Amnesty and the New Naturalization Process -- Alien Rights and Minority Representation -- The Return of the Nation.
CHAPTER EIGHT: A New Civic Nationalism -- Bourneian and Rooseveltian Civic Nationalism -- Alternatives to Civic Nationalism -- The Evasion of Politics and the Madisonian Moment -- Tolerance, Neglect, and Governance by Proposition -- Epilogue -- Immigration and Immigrant Policy -- What Naturalization Can Do -- Beyond Naturalization -- Dual Citizenship and Global Linkages -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration and citizenship of the past two decades. Drawing on political theory, history, and law, he argues for a renewed civic nationalism that melds principles and peoplehood. This tradition of civic nationalism held sway at America's founding and in the Progressive Era. Pickus explores how, from James Madison to Teddy Roosevelt, its proponents sought to combine reason and reverence and to balance inclusion and exclusion. He takes us through controversies over citizenship for blacks and the rights of aliens at the nation's founding, examines the interplay of ideas and institutions in the Americanization movement in the 1910s and 1920s, and charts how both left and right promoted a policy of neglect toward immigrants and toward citizenship in the second half of the twentieth century. True Faith and Allegiance shows that contemporary debates over a range of immigration and citizenship policies cannot be resolved by appeals to fixed notions of creed or culture, but require a supple civic nationalism that bridges the gap between immigrants' needs and American principles and practices. It is critical reading for scholars, policy makers, and all who care about immigrants and about America.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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