America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Lee Erika
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Lee Erika This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive…
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Lee Erika
This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist)The United States is known as a nation of immigrants.
Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. 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. Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported.Today, Americans fear Muslims, Latinos, and the so-called browning of America.
Forcing us to confront this history, Lee explains how
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