Title Citizenship in Cold War America : the national security state and the possibilities of dissent / Andrea Friedman

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War Culture, politics, and the Cold War. Contents Introduction: Citizenship stories in exceptional times -- Internal security, national security : psychological citizenship in the Cold War era -- The case of the war bride : liberal citizenship and human rights in the national security state -- The right to earn a living : loyalty, race, and economic citizenship -- "A dependent independence and a dominated dominion" : empire and semi-citizenship on the Cold War stage -- "The show of violence" : social citizenship, democracy, and the remaking of national security -- Conclusion: Exceptions, exceptionalism, and US citizenship Summary Publisher's description: In the wake of 9/11, many Americans have deplored the dangers to liberty posed by a growing surveillance state. In this book, Andrea Friedman moves beyond the standard security/liberty dichotomy, weaving together often forgotten episodes of early Cold War history to reveal how the obsession with national security enabled dissent and fostered new imaginings of democracy. Friedman traverses immigration law and loyalty boards, popular culture and theoretical treatises, U.S. courtrooms and Puerto Rican jails, to demonstrate how Cold War repression made visible in new ways the unevenness and limitations of American citizenship. Highlighting the ways that race and gender shaped critiques and defenses of the national security regime, she offers new insight into the contradictions of Cold War political culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century Cold War -- Political aspects -- United States National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century Dissenters -- United States -- History -- 20th century Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Citizenship Citizenship -- Social aspects Dissenters Internal security National security Political culture Politics and government Social aspects Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518 United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781613762967 1613762968

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