001478527 000__ 04962nam\a22007575i\4500 001478527 001__ 1478527 001478527 003__ DE-B1597 001478527 005__ 20231026034943.0 001478527 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478527 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478527 008__ 221201t20022002mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478527 020__ $$a9780674039629 001478527 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674039629$$2doi 001478527 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)584793 001478527 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1294426108 001478527 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478527 0410_ $$aeng 001478527 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478527 072_7 $$aHIS036000$$2bisacsh 001478527 08204 $$a323.6/0973$$221 001478527 1001_ $$aKing, Desmond, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478527 24510 $$aMaking Americans :$$bImmigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy /$$cDesmond King. 001478527 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2002] 001478527 264_4 $$c©2002 001478527 300__ $$a1 online resource (400 p.) 001478527 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478527 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478527 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478527 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478527 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tContents -- $$tTables -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tI. Immigrant America -- $$t2. Immigration and American Political Development -- $$t3. A Less Intelligent Class? The Dillingham Commission and the New Immigrants -- $$tII. Defining Americans -- $$t4. "The Fire of Patriotism": Americanization and U.S. Identity -- $$t5. "Frequent Skimmings of the Dross": Building an American Race? -- $$t6. "A Very Serious National Menace": Eugenics and Immigration -- $$tIII. Legislating Americans -- $$t7. Enacting National Origins: The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924) -- $$t8. "A Slur on Our Citizenry": Dismantling National Origins: The 1965 Act -- $$tIV. Legacies -- $$t9. After Americanization: Ethnic Politics and Multiculturalism -- $$t10. The Diverse Democracy -- $$tAppendix -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001478527 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478527 520__ $$aIn the nineteenth century, virtually anyone could get into the United States. But by the 1920s, U.S. immigration policy had become a finely filtered regime of selection. Desmond King looks at this dramatic shift, and the debates behind it, for what they reveal about the construction of an "American" identity. Specifically, the debates in the three decades leading up to 1929 were conceived in terms of desirable versus undesirable immigrants. This not only cemented judgments about specific European groups but reinforced prevailing biases against groups already present in the United States, particularly African Americans, whose inferior status and second-class citizenship--enshrined in Jim Crow laws and embedded in pseudo-scientific arguments about racial classifications--appear to have been consolidated in these decades. Although the values of different groups have always been recognized in the United States, King gives the most thorough account yet of how eugenic arguments were used to establish barriers and to favor an Anglo-Saxon conception of American identity, rejecting claims of other traditions. Thus the immigration controversy emerges here as a significant precursor to recent multicultural debates.Making Americans shows how the choices made about immigration policy in the 1920s played a fundamental role in shaping democracy and ideas about group rights in America. 001478527 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478527 546__ $$aIn English. 001478527 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) 001478527 650_7 $$aHISTORY / United States / General.$$2bisacsh 001478527 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478527 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478527 852__ $$bebk 001478527 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039629$$zOnline Access 001478527 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478527$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478527 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478527 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478527 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478527 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478527 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478527 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478527 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478527 980__ $$aBIB 001478527 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478527 982__ $$aEbook 001478527 983__ $$aOnline