Waubonsee Community College

Making Americans, immigration, race, and the origins of the diverse democracy, Desmond King

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-376) and index

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Making Americans

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Desmond King

"In the nineteenth century virtually anyone could get into the United States. But by the 1920s, 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." "Making Americans shows how the choices made about immigration policy in the 1920s played a fundamental role in shaping democracy and ideas about group rights in America."--Jacket

immigration, race, and the origins of the diverse democracy

Introduction -- Immigration and American political development -- A less intelligent class? The Dillingham Commission and the new immigrants -- "The fire of patriotism" : Americanization and U.S. identity -- "Frequent skimmings of the dross" : building an American race? -- "A very serious national menace" : eugenics and immigration -- Enacting national origins : the Johnson-Reed immigration act (1924) -- "A slur on our citizenry" : dismantling national origins : the 1965 act -- After Americanization : ethnic politics and multiculturalism -- The diverse democracy