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America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States
- Title
- America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States / Erika Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Erika
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- vii, 416 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In [this book], acclaimed historian Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Americans have been wary of almost every group of foreigners that has come to the United States. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed German immigrants for their 'strange and foreign ways.' Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement in the 1850s. Over the century that followed, Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported. Today, Americans fear Muslims, Central Americans, and the so-called browning of America. Xenophobia has not been an exception to America's immigration tradition, an episodic aberration on an inevitable march toward inclusion. It is, in fact, Lee argues, an American tradition in its own right, deeply embedded in our society, economy, and politics. Forcing us to confront this history, [this book] explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens us all. It is a necessary corrective and spur to action for any concerned citizen."--Dust jacket.
- Subjects
- Nationalism
- Xenophobia
- Minorities
- United States
- Immigrants
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies
- Race relations
- History
- Emigration and immigration
- Nationalism > United States > History
- Xenophobia > United States > History
- Minorities > United States > History
- United States > Emigration and immigration > History
- Immigrants > United States > History
- National characteristics, American > History
- United States > Race relations > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-395) and index.
- Contents
- "Strangers to our language and constitutions" -- "Americans must rule America" -- "The Chinese are no more" -- The "inferior races" of Europe -- "Getting rid of the Mexicans" -- "Military necessity" -- Xenophobia and civil rights -- "Save our state" -- Islamophobia.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5217
- ISBN
- 1541672607
- 9781541672604
- 1541672593 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781541672598 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019016168
- 40029619885
- OCLC
- 1089570090
- Author
- Lee, Erika, author.
- Title
- America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States / Erika Lee.
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-395) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lee, Erika. America for Americans. First edition. New York : Basic Books, 2019 9781541672598 (DLC) 2019019677
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029619885
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5217