Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960

by Joseph Keith

Book Overview

During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813559669
• ISBN13: 9780813559667
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary