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America for Americans
Erika Lee
其他書名
A History of Xenophobia in the United States
出版
Hachette UK
, 2019-11-26
主題
History / United States / General
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies
History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN
1541672593
9781541672598
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QreNDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of
How to Be an Antiracist
)
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. 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. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. 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 xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America. Now updated with an afterword reflecting on how the coronavirus pandemic turbocharged xenophobia,
America for Americans
is an urgent spur to action for any concerned citizen.