The cultural workings of immigration and exclusion in U.S. history

Preface ix
Introduction: Nation and Immigration 1
Imagining America: Forgeful Fathers and the Founding Myths of the Nation 23
Historicizing America: Tocqueville and the Ideology of Exceptionalism 48
Immigrant America: Liberal Discourse of Immigration and the Ritual of Self-Renewal 76
Discourses of Exclusion: Nativism and the Imaginging of a “White Nation” 111
Practices of Exclusion: National Borders and the Disciplining of Aliens 143
Conclusion: Remembering 9/11 169
Notes 117
Bibliography 193
Index 205