Book

The Guarded Gate

Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

Daniel Okrent

2019

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

American Immigration: A Century of Racism

Discussions of eugenics and other fascistic ideas in American history tend to provoke the defense that they never took root. So why do they keep flowering?

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2019
Q&A

A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.

by Daniel Okrent, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on May 16, 2019

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