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    1. [TGF] New book of interest on citizenship during the Cold War
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    3. A new title that may be of interest: Citizenship in Cold War America : the national security state and the possibilities of dissent / Andrea Friedman University of Massachusetts Press, 2014 ISBN: 9781625340672 http://www.amazon.com/Citizenship-Cold-War-America-Possibilities/dp/1625340672/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425570902&sr=1-1 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. Tony L.

    03/05/2015 01:09:19