Review: Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times by Stephanie Rae Larson
Producing Good Citizens excavates the historical trajectories of immigration and economic uncertainty by arguing that citizenship has long been yoked to literacy. Wan posits that literacy learning holds curative and corrective power to ameliorate anxieties over citizenship in the face of immigration and imperialism. Turning to the early twentieth century, she impressively deconstructs citizenship’s assumed…