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Making Americans : Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy
Making Americans Immigration Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy
Author: Desmond King
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. Making Americans shows how the choic...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674000889
ISBN-10: 0674000889
Publication Date: 7/21/2000
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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