This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that Immigration crackdowns ...
What is laid bare after his examination is not just the intersection between White supremacy and anti-Immigration bias but also the lasting impacts this perfect storm of hatred has had on United States law..
Through gripping stories and in-depth analysis of major Immigration cases, Jones explores the connections between anti-Immigration hate groups and the Republican Party.
Along the way, we meet a bizarre cast of anti-Immigration characters, such as John Tanton, Cordelia Scaife May, and Stephen Miller, who pushed fringe ideas about White genocide and Race suicide into mainstream political discourse.
He connects past and present to uncover the link between the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1880s, the Keep America American nativism of the 1920s, and the Build the Wall chants initiated by former president Donald Trump in 2016.
Jones\'s scholarship shines through his extensive research of the United States\' racist and xenophobic underbelly.
After the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619, the colonies that became the United States were based on the dual foundation of open Immigration for whites from Northern Europe and the racial Exclusion of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and, eventually, immigrants from other parts of the world. --Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth Recent racist anti-Immigration policies, from the Border Wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In what readers call a chilling and revelatory account, Reece Jones reveals the painful answer: although the US is often mythologized as a nation of immigrants, it has a long History of Immigration restrictions that are rooted in the racist fear of the great replacement of whites with non-White newcomers.
Kendi, award-winning author of Four Hundred Souls and Stamped from the Beginning A damning inquiry into the History of the Border as a place where Race is created and racism honed into a razor-sharp ideology. -- Ibram X. [have] always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a White America.
This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that Immigration crackdowns ..
