True Faith And Allegiance

by Pickus, Noah M. J.

• ISBN13: 9780691121727
• ISBN10: 0691121729
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

True Faith and Allegianceis 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 Allegianceshows 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.

Author Biography

Noah Pickus is Associate Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Naturalization and Nationhood in Three Eras	6	(5)
Citizenship in Theory and Practice	11	(4)
CHAPTER ONE Immigration, Citizenship, and the Nation's Founding	15	(19)
Diversity and Nationhood	16	(6)
Immigration and Citizenship	22	(3)
"Men Who Can Shake Off Their Attachments to Their Own Country"	25	(4)
America's Civic Character	29	(5)
CHAPTER TWO Alienage and Nationalism in the Early Republic	34	(18)
Partisan and Ideological Divisions	35	(2)
"The Constitution Was Made for Citizens, Not Aliens"	37	(5)
The Rights of Aliens, Citizens, and States	42	(5)
Marshall, Madison, and Moderate Civic Nationalism	47	(5)
CHAPTER THREE The Free White Clause of 1790	52	(12)
Why White?	53	(3)
"We Have the Wolf by the Ears": Obstacles to Integration	56	(2)
Emancipation without Citizenship	58	(3)
Civic Nationalism and the Claims of History	61	(3)
CHAPTER FOUR Americanization and Pluralism in the Progressive Era	64	(21)
Citizenship and Nativism, 1830-1911	65	(6)
Americanization, Progressivism, and John Dewey's International Nationalism	71	(5)
Randolph Bourne, Jane Addams, and the Practice of Pluralism	76	(9)
CHAPTER FIVE Nationalism in the Progressive Era	85	(22)
Roosevelt's New Nationalism	86	(4)
Naturalization and Constitutional Attachment	90	(6)
Education for Citizenship	96	(4)
"We Mutually Pledge to Each Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor": Frances Kellar and the National Americanization Committee	100	(7)
CHAPTER SIX World War I and the Turn to Coercion	107	(17)
Tightening the Boundaries of Citizenship	108	(4)
Postwar Americanization and the Specter of Separatism	112	(6)
The Peril and the Promise of Civic Nationalism	118	(6)
CHAPTER SEVEN Immigration and Citizenship at Century's End	124	(23)
From New Deal Nationalism to Nationality as a Human Right	125	(6)
"Name One Benefit of Being a Citizen of the United States": Amnesty and the New Naturalization Process	131	(5)
Alien Rights and Minority Representation	136	(4)
The Return of the Nation	140	(7)
CHAPTER EIGHT A New Civic Nationalism	147	(24)
Bourneian and Rooseveltian Civic Nationalism	148	(5)
Alternatives to Civic Nationalism	153	(7)
The Evasion of Politics and the Madisonian Moment	160	(4)
Tolerance, Neglect, and Governance by Proposition	164	(7)
Epilogue	171	(14)
Immigration and Immigrant Policy	173	(2)
What Naturalization Can Do	175	(3)
Beyond Naturalization	178	(3)
Dual Citizenship and Global Linkages	181	(4)
Notes	185	(56)
Index	241