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Not Like Us - Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (Hardcover, New)
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Not Like Us - Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Ways
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Loot Price R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
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In the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million
immigrants came to the United States-a greater number than in any
comparable period, before or since. They were often greeted in
hostile fashion, a reflection of American nativism that by the
1890s was already well developed. In this analytical narrative,
Roger Daniels examines the condition of immigrants, Native
Americans, and African Americans during a period of supposed
progress for American minorities. He shows that they experienced as
much repression as advance. Not Like Us opens by considering the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the hinge on which U.S. immigration
policy turned and a symbol of the unfriendly climate toward
minorities that would prevail for decades. Mr. Daniels continues
the story through the 1890s, the so-called Progressive Era, the
opportunities and conflicts arising out of World War I, and the
"tribal twenties," when nativism and xenophobia dominated American
society. An epilogue points out gains and losses since the 1924
National Origins Act. Throughout Mr. Daniels's focus is on
legislation, judicial decisions, mob violence, and the responses of
minority groups. The record is scarcely one of unalloyed progress.
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