Author: California. Adjutant General's Office
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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General and Special Orders and Circulars
Author: California. Adjutant General's Office
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1864
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1864
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The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)
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Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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The National Corporation Reporter
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
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Annual Report
Author: Pennsylvania. Adjutant-General's Office
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Index of General Orders and Circulars
Author: United States. War Dept
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Making Americans
Author: Desmond S. King
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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. This not only cemented judgments about specific European groups but reinforced prevailing biases against groups already present in the United States, particularly African Americans, whose inferior status and second-class citizenship--enshrined in Jim Crow laws and embedded in pseudo-scientific arguments about racial classifications--appear to have been consolidated in these decades. Although the values of different groups have always been recognized in the United States, King gives the most thorough account yet of how eugenic arguments were used to establish barriers and to favor an Anglo-Saxon conception of American identity, rejecting claims of other traditions. Thus the immigration controversy emerges here as a significant precursor to recent multicultural debates. Making Americans shows how the choices made about immigration policy in the 1920s played a fundamental role in shaping democracy and ideas about group rights in America.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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. This not only cemented judgments about specific European groups but reinforced prevailing biases against groups already present in the United States, particularly African Americans, whose inferior status and second-class citizenship--enshrined in Jim Crow laws and embedded in pseudo-scientific arguments about racial classifications--appear to have been consolidated in these decades. Although the values of different groups have always been recognized in the United States, King gives the most thorough account yet of how eugenic arguments were used to establish barriers and to favor an Anglo-Saxon conception of American identity, rejecting claims of other traditions. Thus the immigration controversy emerges here as a significant precursor to recent multicultural debates. Making Americans shows how the choices made about immigration policy in the 1920s played a fundamental role in shaping democracy and ideas about group rights in America.