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The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924

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By (author): Cristina Stanciu

Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants
 
In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and cultural production. Deeply grounded in a wide-ranging archive of Indigenous and new immigrant writing and visual cultureincluding congressional acts, testimonies, news reports, cartoons, poetry, fiction, and silent filmthis book brings together voices of Native and immigrant America.
 
Stanciu shows that, although Native Americans and new immigrants faced different legal and cultural obstacles to citizenship, the challenges they faced and their resistance to assimilation and Americanization often ran along parallel paths. Both struggled against idealized models of American citizenship that dominated public spaces. Both participated in government-sponsored Americanization efforts and worked to gain agency and sovereignty while negotiating naturalization.
 
Rethinking popular understandings of Americanization, Stanciu argues that the new immigrants and Native Americans at the heart of this book expanded the narrow definitions of American identity. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Mar 2023
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300224351

About Cristina Stanciu

Cristina Stanciu is associate professor of English and director of the Humanities Research Center at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is coeditor of Laura Cornelius Kellogg: Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Writings.

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