Producing Good Citizens: Literacy and Citizenship Training in Anxious Times
Wan, Amy J.
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Description
Title
Producing Good Citizens: Literacy and Citizenship Training in Anxious Times
Author(s)
Wan, Amy J.
Issue Date
2007
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Peter Mortensen
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Rhetoric and Composition
Language
eng
Abstract
By examining a range of spaces where those hoping to acquire full citizenship may have encountered literacy, I investigate how citizenship and literacy have been mutually but often contradictorily implicated for often disenfranchised individuals. Literacy became a way to measure the potential productivity of industrial workers, many of them immigrants, during a period that established many of the legal and cultural requirements of U.S. citizenship in parallel with the proliferation of mass manufacturing. Additionally, this study reveals how workers and immigrants themselves position literacy as a tool for social and economic mobility in their quests for full citizenship.
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