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Forty-Eighters (American immigrants) --- German Americans --- History --- Schurz, Carl, --- Watertown (Wis.) --- History.

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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 intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African American writers—C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright—Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms “alienage,” as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of the "American Century.” Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today.

American literature --- Race in literature. --- Citizenship in literature. --- Immigrants' writings, American --- American immigrants' writings --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors

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Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a population united by that language, irrespective of national origin; and it solidifies and furthers national identity. The literature of immigration reflects the reasons for emigrating, records—both orally and in writing—the trials and tribulations of immigration, and facilitates adjustment to the new society while maintaining links with the old society. Based on an archive assembled over the past two decades by author Nicolás Kanellos's Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage project, this comprehensive study is one of the first to define this body of work. Written and recorded by people from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, the texts presented here reflect the dualities that have characterized the Hispanic immigrant experience in the United States since the mid-nineteenth century, set always against a longing for homeland.

American literature --- Immigrants' writings, American --- Hispanic Americans in literature. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Hispanic American authors --- History and criticism. --- American immigrants' writings

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"This comprehensive text provides a detailed narrative history of each of the nations of Latin America, from Chile and Argentina in the South to Mexico and Cuba in the north. It begins with the Wars of Independence in the early nineteenth century and stretches to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. It interprets major themes, such as the age of caudillos in the nineteenth century, populism in the twentieth century, and globalization in the twenty-first century. These themes, along with others such as ethnic strife, social revolutions, and militarism, transcend borders and show the unity of the Latin America experience, even as the text draws out the diversity that marks the region's geography, peoples, and cultures."

Latin America --- History --- Politics and government --- anthropology. --- class. --- cultural anthropology. --- ethnography. --- gender. --- historical context. --- historical reference. --- latinx studies. --- mexican american immigrants. --- political activists. --- race. --- scholars. --- social activists. --- socioeconomic position. --- sociology.

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American prose literature --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Women immigrants --- Women pioneers --- Immigrants' writings, American --- Women and literature --- Autobiography --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Literature --- American immigrants' writings --- American literature --- Frontier women --- Pioneer women --- Pioneers --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- Biography --- History. --- Women authors.