Reece Jones

White Borders (eBook, ePUB)

The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that immigration crackdowns … [have] always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a white America." -Ibram X. Kendi, award-winning author of Four Hundred Souls and Stamped from the Beginning "A damning inquiry into the history of the border as a place where race is created and racism honed into a razor-sharp ideology." -Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth Recent racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In what readers call a "chilling and revelatory" account, Reece Jones reveals the painful answer: 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 newcomers. 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 the racial exclusion of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and, eventually, immigrants from other parts of the world. Jones's scholarship shines through his extensive research of the United States' racist and xenophobic underbelly. He connects past and present to uncover 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 Donald Trump in 2016. Along the way, we meet a bizarre cast of anti-immigration characters, such as John Tanton, Cordelia Scaife May, and Stephen Miller, who pushed fringe ideas about "white genocide" and "race suicide" into mainstream political discourse. Through gripping stories and in-depth analysis of major immigration cases, Jones explores the connections between anti-immigration hate groups and the Republican Party. What is laid bare after his examination is not just the intersection between white supremacy and anti-immigration bias but also the lasting impacts this perfect storm of hatred has had on United States law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807054123
• Artikelnr.: 60805892

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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