Making Americans : : Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy / / Desmond King.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: King, Desmond,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

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 "Amer...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Tables
• Introduction
• I. Immigrant America
• 2. Immigration and American Political Development
• 3. A Less Intelligent Class? The Dillingham Commission and the New Immigrants
• II. Defining Americans
• 4. “The Fire of Patriotism”: Americanization and U.S. Identity
• 5. “Frequent Skimmings of the Dross”: Building an American Race?
• 6. “A Very Serious National Menace”: Eugenics and Immigration
• III. Legislating Americans
• 7. Enacting National Origins: The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924)
• 8. “A Slur on Our Citizenry”: Dismantling National Origins: The 1965 Act
• IV. Legacies
• 9. After Americanization: Ethnic Politics and Multiculturalism
• 10. The Diverse Democracy
• Appendix
• Notes
• Index