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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, 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. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese...
10) Mongrels, bastards, orphans, and vagabonds: Mexican immigration and the future of race in America
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.
Publisher
Lowedown Productions
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Carved in Silence tells the story of Chinese immigrants who were detained at the United States Immigration Station at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay during the little known Chinese Exclusion era. The film examines the genesis of racially discriminatory immigration policies, its reality, and its consequences. Interviews are intercut with historical footage and dramatic re-enactments to powerfully translate the impact of public policies into human...
20) Ellis Island
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A look at the history of Ellis Island, the primary immigration point into the United States from 1892-1954.
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