Modeling Citizenship

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface: Modeling Citizenship and Modeled Selfhood xi Introduction: Perpetual Foreigners and Model Minorities: Naturalizing Jewish and Asian Americans 1 1 “Who May Be Citizens of the United States”: Citizenship Models in Edith Maude Eaton and Abraham Cahan 20 2 Interrupted Allegiances: Indivisibility and Transnational Pledges 52 3 Utopian and Dystopian Citizenships: Visions and Revisions of the “Promised Land” 86 4 Reading and Writing America: Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation 123 5 Demarcating the Nation: Naturalizing Cold War Legacies and War on Terror Policies 152 Epilogue: “A Sense of Loss and Anomie”: Model Minorities and Twenty-First-Century Citizenship 177 Notes 185 Bibliography 207 Index 215 ...