Citizenship in Cold War America: The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent

Citizenship in Cold War America: The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent

by Andrea Friedman
ISBN-10:
1625340680
ISBN-13:
9781625340689
Pub. Date:
07/08/2014
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-10:
1625340680
ISBN-13:
9781625340689
Pub. Date:
07/08/2014
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press
Citizenship in Cold War America: The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent

Citizenship in Cold War America: The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent

by Andrea Friedman
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Overview

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.

The stories told here capture a wide-ranging debate about the workings of the national security state and the meaning of American citizenship. Some of the participants in this debate—women like war bride Ellen Knauff and Pentagon employee Annie Lee Moss—were able to make their own experiences compelling examples of the threats posed by the national security regime. Others, such as Ruth Reynolds and Lolita Lebrón, who advocated an end to American empire in Puerto Rico, or the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who sought to change the very definition of national security, were less successful. Together, however, they exposed the gap between democratic ideals and government policies.

Friedman traverses immigration law and loyalty boards, popular culture and theoretical treatises, U.S. court-rooms 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781625340689
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 07/08/2014
Series: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Andrea Friedman is associate professor of history and of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Citizenship Stories in Exceptional Times 1

1 Internal Security, National Security: Psychological Citizenship in the Cold War Era 16

2 The Case of the War Bride: Liberal Citizenship and Human Rights in the National Security State 48

3 The Right to Earn a Living: Loyalty, Race, and Economic Citizenship 80

4 "A Dependent Independence and a Dominated Dominion": Empire and Semi-Citizenship on the Cold War Stage 119

5 "The Show of Violence": Social Citizenship, Democracy, and the Remaking of National Security 157

Conclusion: Exceptions, Exceptionalism, and U.S. Citizenship 192

Notes 199

Bibliography 241

Index 267

What People are Saying About This

Laura McEnaney

This is a very polished, well-argued book that draws on a deep reservoir of archival materials.... The marvelous diversity of the case studies reinforces the main theme, which is that the Cold War consensus was not as solid as we have thought — or have been led to believe by previous scholarship.... Friedman's manuscript is a rumination on cold war citizenship, but it leads us to reconsider all moments in American history — well beyond her chronology here — in which citizenship was contested (and when wasn't it, frankly?). The episodes Friedman uncovers are absolutely crucial civics lessons that should enter the mainstream of our teaching on the postwar/cold war years.

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