Making Americans
Subtitle: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: July 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674000889
Subjects: Immigration & emigration; U.S. Ethnic Politics; Political Science; History - U.S.; Politics/International Relations; USA; Civics & Citizenship; Emigration & Immigration; United States - 20th Century/20s; History / United States / General; Public Policy - Social Policy; Emigration And Immigration; Government policy; History; Race relations; United States
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.