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Not fit for our society [[electronic resource] ] : nativism and immigration / / Peter Schrag



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Autore: Schrag Peter Visualizza persona
Titolo: Not fit for our society [[electronic resource] ] : nativism and immigration / / Peter Schrag Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
Disciplina: 304.8
Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration - Social aspects
Emigration and immigration - Public opinion
Emigration and immigration - Government policy
Nativism
Eugenics
Soggetto non controllato: america
american citizenship
american culture
american history
american society
chinese immigrants
controversial
current events
discussion books
fear and change
german immigrants
historical nonfiction
immigrants
immigration debate
immigration policies
immigration
irish immigrants
italian immigrants
jewish immigrants
latino immigrants
modern immigration
nativism
political issues
politics
race and immigration
social change
students and teachers
united states
us history
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: A city upon a hill -- "This visible act of ingurgitation" -- "Science" makes its case -- Preserving the race -- The great awhitening -- "They keep coming" -- A border without lines.
Sommario/riassunto: In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over the same questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds that nativism has long colored our national history, and that the fear-and loathing-of newcomers has provided one of the faultlines of American cultural and political life. Schrag describes the eerie similarities between the race-based arguments for restricting Irish, German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese immigrants in the past and the arguments for restricting Latinos and others today. He links the terrible history of eugenic "science" to ideas, individuals, and groups now at the forefront of the fight against rational immigration policies. Not Fit for Our Society makes a powerful case for understanding the complex, often paradoxical history of immigration restriction as we work through the issues that inform, and often distort, the debate over who can become a citizen, who decides, and on what basis.
Titolo autorizzato: Not fit for our society  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-76391-1
9786612763915
0-520-94577-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784956003321
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