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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

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Availability:In StockContributor:Erika LeePublish date:2021-06-15Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541672611ISBN-10:1541672615UPC:9781541672611Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Discrimination, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC6J2FSXDT
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541672611ISBN-10:1541672615UPC:9781541672611Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Discrimination, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC6J2FSXDT
Erika Lee is is the inaugural Bae Family Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumni Professor at Harvard University. The past president of the Organization of American Historians, she is the author of The Making of Asian America and other award-winning books.
Publisher: Basic Books

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