Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy

by Desmond King

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067400812X
• ISBN13: 9780674008120
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"