Immigration, Assimilation, and the Cultural Construction of American National Identity

By Shannon Anderson

This book explores the relationship between immigration, assimilation, and narratives of American identity. The often self-congratulatory, mythic story of the U.S. as a nation of immigrants can feel hollow in a climate of minutemen brigades and deadlock on a strategy for moving forward regarding the millions of undocumented immigrants currently in residence. In this book, an in-depth examination of elite writing about immigration and assimilation over the course of the 20th century illuminates and offers important insights into the dominant narratives of national identity: Anglo-Protestantism, the melting pot, and multiculturalism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138100412
• ISBN13: 9781138100411
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"