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Struggles over immigrants' language : literacy tests in the United States, 1917-1966 /
Oh argues that the introduction of literacy tests influenced both the possibility of immigrant admission to the United States and the exercise of suffrage. The Literacy Test Act of 1917 was the first national language restriction on immigration and was used as a means of excluding?undesirable? lingu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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El Paso :
LFB Scholarly Pub.,
2012.
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| Colección: | New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Oh argues that the introduction of literacy tests influenced both the possibility of immigrant admission to the United States and the exercise of suffrage. The Literacy Test Act of 1917 was the first national language restriction on immigration and was used as a means of excluding?undesirable? linguistic minorities. Focusing on New York State, Oh shows how literacy tests were used to preserve the political hegemony. She argues that linguistic assimilation carried different meanings for different people. For Europeans, it meant swifter assimilation into American society, while for non-whites i. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 174 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781593325329 1593325320 1593324774 9781593324773 |