Nativism

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/20/2021
  

  Anglo-Saxon’ Is What You Say When ‘Whites Only’ Is Too Inclusive

  by Adam Serwer

  Anglo-Saxonism is the belief in a mythical ethnic origin story of the American nation that has always been used to justify exclusion. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  4/17/2021
  

  GOP's New 'America First Caucus' Follows in some Blatantly White Nationalist Footsteps

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  The 1920s saw American nativists invoke the purity of "Anglo Saxon" heritage as a justification for restricting immigration outside of western Europe and other measures that inspired the racial dictatorship of Nazism. It needs to be made clear where this "America First" movement can lead. 

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• 4/18/2021
  

  Sadly, Hatred is Very Much American

  by Ralph E. Shaffer

  "Lieutenant Cable, and Oscar Hammerstein, had it wrong in "South Pacific."  Americans don't have to be "carefully taught " to hate. Historically, it's been inherent, one generation after another. The only change has been the target."

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• 4/18/2021
  

  What Do John Dewey's Century-Old Thoughts on Anti-Asian Bigotry Teach Us?

  by Charles F. Howlett

  A century ago, the American philosopher and educator took a sabattical to China and concluded that, if encouraged to learn about other cultures, White Americans could be brought to acceptance of Asian Americans and other immigrants as equal participants in democracy. COVID-inspired bigotry shows this dream remains unrealized.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/6/2021
  

  Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds

  Political scientist Robert Pape's work suggests that the prime driver of participation in the Capitol Riots was a sense that the election result reflected a threat to the power and influence of whites in American culture, with familiar echoes to racist and nativist movements of the past. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/5/2021
  

  America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses

  by Caitlin Dickerson

  Historian David Romo says that racist nativism is "ingrained in the culture and in the laws that are produced by that culture," but concealed by myths of a nation welcoming to immigrants. Also cited: Rose Cuison-Villazor, Daniel Tichenor, Mae Ngai, Donna Gabaccia and Adam Goodman. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  3/30/2021
  

  One Man’s Quest to Crack the Modern Anti-Immigration Movement—by Unsealing Its Architect’s Papers

  John Tanton donated 25 boxes of documents related to his work with anti-immigration advocacy organizations beginning in the 1960s. The gift stipulated that much of the collection be sealed until 2035. An immigration advocate says that Tanton's connections to right-wing anti-immigrant groups and the pro-eugenics Pioneer Fund means the university should unseal the papers now. 

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• SOURCE: Paris Review
  3/11/2021
  

  The Trouble with Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  by Halle Butler

  The resurrection of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's literary stature in the 1970s ran counter to the author's own self-understanding, summed up in her statement "I abominate being called a feminist." It also obscured her racist nativism. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/2021
  

  A Century Ago, White Protestant Extremism Marched on Washington

  "There still has to be a reckoning within white Christian churches about white supremacy. There need to be very careful conversations about this, not as, 'Individuals are prejudiced,' but about, 'This is the system that we all inhabit'."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/26/2021
  

  Trump Began With His ‘Great’ Wall. He Ended With It, Too

  by Geraldo Cadava

  His legacy will be the divisions he has sown between Americans.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/20/2020
  

  Canadian Viewers of HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Should Know the KKK Helped Bring Down a Provincial Government in 1929

  by James M. Pitsula

  The Ku Klux Klan was active in 1920s Canada, pushing a nativist agenda similar to its contemporaries in the northern United States.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/8/2020
  

  Trump’s Law-and-Order Campaign Relies on a Historic American Tradition of Racist and Anti-Immigrant Politics

  by Austin Sarat

  "Throughout this nation’s history, appeals to law and order have been as much about defending privilege as dealing with crime. They have been used in political campaigns to stigmatize racial, ethnic and religious groups and resist calls for social justice made by, and on behalf of, those groups."

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• SOURCE: Bangor Daily News
  7/6/2020
  

  This Maine Governor Never Publicly Embraced the Klan, But He Never Disavowed its Support

  Ralph Owen Brewster’s silence on the Klan spoke volumes.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/30/2020
  

  Jared Kushner Is a Know Nothing – Not Just Because He has Failed on so Many Fronts

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  Trump’s son-in-law wants a miniature Republican platform. It is a move with strong parallels – but not to the party of Lincoln

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• SOURCE: History.com
  

  This Day in History: Coolidge Signs 1924 Immigration Act into Law

  A quota was set that limited immigration to two percent of any given nation’s residents already in the U.S. as of 1890, a provision designed to maintain America’s largely Northern European racial composition.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/19/2020
  

  America’s Immigration Paradox

  A review of Jia Lynn Yang's new work "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide," and Adam Goodman's "The Deportation Machine."

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• 4/12/2020
  

  The Other Pandemic

  by Alan M. Kraut

  The coronavirus will not succeed in doing to American society what fascism did to Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, but it has sparked a virulent wave of racism and intolerance, especially aimed at Chinese Americans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/2020
  

  Counting Everyone—Citizens and Non-Citizens—In the 2020 Census is Crucial

  by Brendan A. Shanahan

  Even without a citizenship question, the Trump administration wants to shape how states reapportion their legislatures.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/19/19
  

  The long, ugly history of insisting minority groups can’t criticize America

  by Tyler Anbinder

  Trump’s attack against four Democratic members of Congress fits a pattern in U.S. politics.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1/3/19
  

  Nativism and Who Is Considered a "Real American"

  by Caleb Elfinbein and Peter Hanson

  A new survey explores American attitudes toward their national identity. The results should give us pause.