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Trade Review“
The Autobiography of Citizenship grants us access to a range of fascinating archives and makes a valuable contribution to American literary studies, ethnic studies, and history.”
-- Sarah Wilson * author of Melting-Pot Modernism *
"A refreshing and compelling study … and one that contributes to an important intersection between the fields of education and multi-ethnic literary studies." * MELUS *
"Tova Cooper details how minorities—Native, African, and Jewish Americans—used literature to cope with the modern U.S. demand that they assimilate or disappear entirely. How these writers and intellectuals overcame their formal educations to teach us different lessons is a heroic story." -- John Carlos Rowe * University of Southern California *
"Cooper provides a fascinating comparison of citizenship education programs aimed at molding American Indians, African Americans, and immigrants into 'good Americans.'” * American Literature *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 On Autobiography, Boy Scouts, and Citizenship: Revisiting Charles Eastman’s Deep Woods
2 The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Visualizations of the “Indian” in Black, White, and Native Educational Contexts
3 Speaking the Body: German-Jewish Americanization Programs, Eastern European Jews, and the Autobiographical Work of Abraham Cahan
4 Curricular Cosmopolitans: W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams
5 Emma Goldman, the Modern School, and the Politics of Reproduction
Conclusion
Notes
Index
