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Americanization and the Education of new Immigrants Americanization and the Education of new Immigrants
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“I Tell Heem Nothing!”: Immigrant Letters and Writing Specimens in the Americanization Project “I Tell Heem Nothing!”: Immigrant Letters and Writing Specimens in the Americanization Project
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Americanization in Print Americanization in Print
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The Foreign Language Press and Americanization The Foreign Language Press and Americanization
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Case Study: The Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey Case Study: The Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey
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4 “Sing, Strangers!”: Education, Print Culture, and the Americanization of New Immigrants
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Published:January 2023
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Abstract
This chapter explores Americanization—this time in a new immigrant context. It looks at the better-known archive of mainstream Americanization publications and the lesser-known archive of the Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey. The chapter highlights that the Americanization of new immigrants through education consolidated the U.S. empire by producing imagined compliant new citizens, ready to supply the expanding demands of the country's labor market after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Like their emerging Native intellectual peers, the chapter emphasizes that new immigrant writers and activists revised the script of Americanization as they shaped a new immigrant literature. Focusing on the work of public schools and foreign language newspapers in New York City and Chicago, the chapter then traces ways that immigrant education and print culture supported the work of Americanization and illustrates “affective Americanization,” an insidious form of co-optation through the affective bonds across time and space. It seeks to fill a gap in the current scholarship on the immigrant press and its role in the Americanization project, as well as the immigrant treatment of Indian tropes in foreign language publications.
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