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Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy

By Desmond King

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674039629
DOI
10.4159/9780674039629
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1407756 bytes)
Pages
400\392
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 10:06:35

Description

In the nineteenth century, virtually anyone could get into the United States. By the 1920s, however, 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 “American” identity.

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