By raising up the voices of American Indians and European immigrantspeople who were both objects and adversaries of AmericanizationStanciu provides a stunning, pluralistic vision of this crucial moment in U.S history.Frederick E. Hoxie, author of This Indian Country
This book is phenomenal! Stancius book is well-researched, showcasing the benefits of creatively using archives. A comparative cultural history, this project is a model for future historians and literary historians alike.Kyle T. Mays, author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
In this expansive study, Stanciu centers Indigenous experiences of Americanization, revealing shared and divergent grounds with Immigrants in law, literature, and culture. Deeply researched and powerfully told, it refuses Indigenous erasure of the nation of immigrants framework. Essential reading.Beth Piatote, author of Domestic Subjects
Cristina Stanciu highlights the ways Native Americans and immigrant communities negotiated, and at times authored, the terms of Americanization for themselves, and in so doing reworked categories of inclusion and exclusion to challenge the terms by which the nation sought to expand and define its reach.Kiara M. Vigil, author of Indigenous Intellectuals
In the midst of renewed immigrant exclusion and continued colonization of Native nations, this original and intriguing book is timely. Cristina Stanciu exposes the artificiality of making Americans in a settler-colonial state.Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not A Nation of Immigrants