Modeling Citizenship

Index

The Accidental Asian (Liu), 1, 5, 10–11, 12–13, 15–16 African Americans: citizenship and, 24, 27, 59; in Jasmine (Mukherjee), 127; Medal of Liberty for, 149, 151; modeling and, 149, 150, 151; in Mona in the Promised Land (Jen), 119–120, 121, 122; naturalization and, 24, 26, 27, 187n6; whiteness and, 121, 122, 150 Ah Yup, 23, 26–28 alienation: Asian Americans and, 177–184; in Children of the Ghetto (Zangwill), 68; in The Flower Drum Song (Lee), 55, 56, 75, 80, 81, 83; in Jasmine (Mukherjee), 128; Jewish Americans and, 177–184; in Lost in Translation (Hoffman), 128, 141, 144–145, 146; in The Melting-Pot (Zangwill), 60, 62–63; in Mona in the Promised Land (Jen), 119; in “My Own Private India” (Stein), 177–184; in Roughing It (Twain), 39; in “Snow” (Butler), 3, 5; in “The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese” (Eaton), 36–37 allegiances: Asian Americans and, 26, 116, 117, 159, 162, 170–171; assimilation and, 57; in The Flower Drum Song (Lee), 75, 81; identity and, 116, 117; immigration policy and, 170–171; in The Jazz Singer (Fleischer), xiv, xv; Jewish Americans and, 54–55, 116, 117, 162; in The MeltingPot (Zangwill), 54–55, 58, 61, 63–68; in Mona in the Promised Land (Jen), 116, 117; naturalization and, 4–5, 6, 7–8, 26, 63–68, 159, 167; oaths of, 4–5, 6, 26, 65, 67, 71, 78, 94–95, 96, 167–168, 170–171; in The Promised Land (Antin), 89, 92, 94–97, 98, 99; religion and, 116, 117; USA PATRIOT Act and, 170–171; in Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (Cahan), 45. See also patriotism Antin, Mary: Chertoff and Dinh compared with, 162; Hammad compared with, 175; Hoffman compared with, 145; Jen compared with, 105, 106, 107, 109, 112, 115, 122; in Lost in Translation (Hoffman), 123, 125; The Promised Land, 89–90, 92–101, 102; They Who Knock at Our Gates, 86; Zangwill compared with, 69 anti-Semitism: in American Civil War, 22–23; Chertoff and, 161; citizenship and, 161; in “Concerning the Jews” (Twain), 40–41; in The Immigration Problem (Jenks and Lauck), 92; in Lost in Translation (Hoffman), 142; in The Melting-Pot (Zangwill), 61, 66, 68; in The Promised Land (Antin), 98, 99; in Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (Cahan), 44 Index 216 / index Arab Americans, 164–165, 166, 174–175 Asian Americans: in The Accidental Asian (Liu), 1, 5, 10–11, 12–13, 15–16; alienation and, 177–184; allegiances and, 26, 116, 117, 159, 162, 170–171; assimilation and, 158–160, 162, 195n34; citizenship and, 23, 24–28, 114–116, 132, 133, 137–138, 157, 158–160, 170–171, 172–174; cold war and, 103; democracy and, 71; discrimination and, 14–15; economy and, 21, 26, 28, 163; education and, 108, 154–155; employment and, 36–37, 39, 154; family and, 31–33, 107, 112, 113, 118–119, 158, 159, 160, 195n34; in The Flower Drum Song (Lee), 55, 56, 74–75, 76–85; in The Flower Drum Song (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 75–76, 84; food and, 110–111; in A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Butler), 5; holidays and, 110–111, 119; identity and, 16, 32–33, 79, 107–108, 109–110, 113–122, 129–132, 138; immigration and, 74–75, 76–85, 104–105, 114–115, 124, 126, 154–155, 156–157, 158–160, 178–179; immigration policy and, 28, 29–33, 103, 104–105, 166–167, 177–179, 184; in “In the Land of the Free” (Eaton), 29–33; in Jasmine (Mukherjee), 129–138; in The Jazz Singer (Fleischer), xiii–xiv, xv–xvi; language and, 107, 154; literacy and, 119; Medal of Liberty for, 149, 151; modeling and, 10, 12–16, 31, 39, 51, 56, 74, 79, 84, 112–113, 119, 122, 135–136, 137, 138, 149, 150, 151, 154–163, 173, 177, 178, 181, 184; in Mona in the Promised Land (Jen), 106–122; in “My Own Private India” (Stein), 177–184; nationhood and, 184; naturalization and, 6–8, 9–13, 23, 24–28, 29, 32–33, 35–38, 55, 73, 76–85, 117–118, 130–132, 133–138, 155, 157, 158–160, 162, 205n43; as perpetual foreigners, 181, 184; personhood and, 26–27, 39, 41; as refugees, 55, 159, 162; religion and, 113–122; Second World War and, 165, 170–171, 172–174; selfhood and, 21–22, 25, 27, 28, 32, 41, 75, 173, 184; statelessness and, 74...