Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 by Joseph Keith

The American Literatures Initiative

Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960

Joseph Keith

240 pages paperback 2013

4 editions

nonfiction history literary race challenging reflective medium-paced
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During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellect...

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