Not fit for our society [[electronic resource] ] : nativism and immigration / / Peter Schrag
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| Autore: |
Schrag Peter
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| Titolo: |
Not fit for our society [[electronic resource] ] : nativism and immigration / / Peter Schrag
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-282-76391-1 |
| 9786612763915 | |
| 0-520-94577-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784956003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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