True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism

Sampul Depan
Princeton University Press, 2005 - 257 halaman

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.

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Introduction
1
Naturalization and Nationhood in Three Eras
6
Citizenship in Theory and Practice
11
Immigration Citizenship and the Nations Founding
15
Diversity and Nationhood
16
Immigration and Citizenship
22
Men Who Can Shake Off Their Attachments to Their Own Country
25
Americas Civic Character
29
Education for Citizenship
96
Frances Kellor and the National Americanization Committee
100
World War I and the Turn to Coercion
107
Tightening the Boundaries of Citizenship
108
Postwar Americanization and the Specter of Separatism
112
The Peril and the Promise of Civic Nationalism
118
Immigration and Citizenship at Centurys End
124
From New Deal Nationalism to Nationality as a Human Right
125

Alienage and Nationalism in the Early Republic
34
Partisan and Ideological Divisions
35
The Constitution Was Made for Citizens Not Aliens
37
The Rights of Aliens Citizens and States
42
Marshall Madison and Moderate Civic Nationalism
47
The Free White Clause of 1790
52
Why White?
53
Obstacles to Integration
56
Emancipation without Citizenship
58
Civic Nationalism and the Claims of History
61
Americanization and Pluralism in the Progressive Era
64
Citizenship and Nativism 18301911
65
Americanization Progressivism and John Deweys International Nationalism
71
Randolph Bourne Jane Addams and the Practice of Pluralism
76
Nationalism in the Progressive Era
85
Roosevelts New Nationalism
86
Naturalization and Constitutional Attachment
90
Amnesty and the New Naturalization Process
131
Alien Rights and Minority Representation
136
The Return of the Nation
140
A New Civic Nationalism
147
Bourneian and Rooseveltian Civic Nationalism
148
Alternatives to Civic Nationalism
153
The Evasion of Politics and the Madisonian Movement
160
Tolerance Neglect and Governance by Proposition
164
Epilogue
171
Immigration and Immigrant Policy
173
What Naturalization Can Do
175
Beyond Naturalization
178
Dual Citizenship and Global Linkages
181
Notes
185
Index
241
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Noah Pickus is Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He teaches at Sanford Institute of Public Policy and is the editor of Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century.

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