The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white America.
Racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In a sweeping account, Reece Jones reveals that although the US is often mythologized as a nation of immigrants, it has a long history of immigration restrictions that are rooted in the racist fear of the "great replacement" of whites with non-white immigrants. After the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619, the colonies that became the United States were based on the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and racial exclusion of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and, eventually, immigrants from other parts of the world.
Connecting past to present, Jones uncovers the link between the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1880s, the "Keep America American" nativism of the 1920s, and the "Build the Wall" chants initiated by former president Trump in 2016. Along the way, we meet a bizarre cast of characters, such as John Tanton, Cordelia Scaife May, and Stephen Miller, who moved fringe ideas about "white genocide" and "race suicide" into mainstream political discourse. Through gripping stories and in-depth analysis, Jones explores the connections between anti-immigration hate groups and the Republican Party, exposing the lasting impacts of white supremacist ideas on United States law.
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Reece Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a professor in and the chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai'i. He has researched immigration for over 20 years and is the author of Border Walls and Violent Borders, over 2 dozen journal articles, and 4 edited books. He is editor in chief of the journal Geopolitics and lives in Honolulu with his family. Connect with him on Twitter at @ReeceJonesUH.
Inhalt
List of Tables
Prologue
INTRODUCTION
Two Versions of History
CHAPTER 1
Go West, Young Man
CHAPTER 2
Lewd and Debauched
CHAPTER 3
Whatever Happens, the Chinese Must Go
CHAPTER 4
The White Man, Par Excellence
CHAPTER 5
The Very Fabric of Our Race
CHAPTER 6
Keep America American
CHAPTER 7
The Ethnic Mix of This Country Will Not Be Upset
CHAPTER 8
People, People, People, People
CHAPTER 9
On Our Same Side
CHAPTER 10
Invaded on All Fronts
CHAPTER 11
Hostile Takeover
CHAPTER 12
Out-Tancredo Tancredo
CHAPTER 13
The World Just Changed
CHAPTER 14
It's Time to Make Immigration Policy Great Again
CHAPTER 15
The Invisible Wall
CONCLUSION
The Great Replacement
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index