@article{916354,
      author = {Lee, Erika,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/916354},
      title = {America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the  United States /},
      abstract = {"The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But  it is also a nation of xenophobia. In [this book],  acclaimed historian 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. Americans have been wary of almost every group  of foreigners that has come to the United States. Benjamin  Franklin ridiculed German immigrants for their 'strange and  foreign ways.' Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics  turned xenophobia into a national political movement in the  1850s. Over the century that followed, Chinese immigrants  were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans  deported. Today, Americans fear Muslims, Central Americans,  and the so-called browning of America. Xenophobia has not  been an exception to America's immigration tradition, an  episodic aberration on an inevitable march toward  inclusion. It is, in fact, Lee argues, an American  tradition in its own right, deeply embedded in our society,  economy, and politics, Forcing us to confront this history,  [this book] explains how xenophobia works, why it has  endured, and how it threatens us all. It is a necessary  corrective and spur to action for any concerned  citizen."--Dust jacket.},
      recid = {916354},
      pages = {vii, 416 pages :},
}