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Making Americans : Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy /
In the nineteenth century, virtually anyone could get into the United States. But by the 1920s, U.S. immigration policy had become a finely filtered regime of selection. Desmond King looks at this dramatic shift, and the debates behind it, for what they reveal about the construction of an "Amer...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2002]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction
- I. Immigrant America
- 2. Immigration and American Political Development
- 3. A Less Intelligent Class? The Dillingham Commission and the New Immigrants
- II. Defining Americans
- 4. "The Fire of Patriotism": Americanization and U.S. Identity
- 5. "Frequent Skimmings of the Dross": Building an American Race?
- 6. "A Very Serious National Menace": Eugenics and Immigration
- III. Legislating Americans
- 7. Enacting National Origins: The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924)
- 8. "A Slur on Our Citizenry": Dismantling National Origins: The 1965 Act
- IV. Legacies
- 9. After Americanization: Ethnic Politics and Multiculturalism
- 10. The Diverse Democracy
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index