Nativism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/16/2021
  

  Politicians, not Migrants, are Fueling the Pandemic's Resurgence

  by Randa Tawil

  At the height of colonialism, European governments rejected calls for quarantine to keep global commerce humming, and blamed supposedly unsanitary local populations for the inevitable spread of cholera. Governors in some US states are repeating this mistake today. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  8/25/2021
  

  70 Years after the UN Refugee Convention, the US Needs to Commit to Helping Displaced People

  by Linda K. Kerber

  The UN Refugee Convention does not impose any real obligations on any nation to offer asylum. The United States must lead the way in recognition of the deeply interconnected world created in large part by American power.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/20/2021
  

  Both the Right and Left Need to Remember Demography is Not Destiny

  by Adam Serwer

  The 2020 Census has fueled optimism on the left and panic on the right about American demographics. But past periods of ethnic change have shown the fluidity of racial categories defies expectations.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/23/2021
  

  America Once was Eager for Chinese Immigration. Mae Ngai's Book Explains What Happened

  The first wave of the California Gold Rush was "a nettlesome experiment in multiracial democracy that had little precedent in the country's history," but resulted in the development of institutionalized anti-Asian nativism as a political force.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/22/2021
  

  Nativism Has Thwarted American Refugee Resettlement Before

  by E. Kyle Romero

  Political hostility toward the Bolshevik revolution and anti-Asian racism were among the factors that prevented the resettlement of World War I refugees in the United States, leaving their care to Eurpoean nations wracked by war. 

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• 8/29/2021
  

  Bigler's Gambit: How the California Gold Fields Gave Rise to Global Anti-Chinese Politics

  by Mae Ngai

  The Chinese Question and Chinese exclusion policies that circumnavigated the Anglo-American world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries grew in local soils, and shifted and evolved as it crossed the Pacific world and supported the consolidation of British and American power over global emigration and trade."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  

  GOP Revives Old Tactic: Blame Outsiders for Disease

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The coronavirus is spreading most rapidly in places with low vaccination rates, not high immigration."

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  8/6/2021
  

  2 Years After El Paso Attack, the "Great Replacement" Ideology Remains Dangerous

  A discussion of the legacy of John Tanton, the father of contemporary nativism and a principal exponent of the idea of an ethnic "replacement" of white Americans.

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• 5/30/2021
  

  In 1844, Nativist Protestants Burned Churches in the Name of Religious Liberty

  by Zachary M. Schrag

  Rick Santorum's dismissive take on Native American history led to his ouster at CNN. But his remarks also glossed over a violent history of Protestant intolerance that should be a warning to us today about the danger of the idea that only one creed is truly American.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/16/2021
  

  Mexico Faces Up to Uneasy Anniversary of Chinese Massacre

  The 1911 massacre of Chinese laborers in the town of Torreón shows that Asian migrants were subjected to mass violence throughout the Americas. The Mexican government and society have only recently begun to acknowledge this and other incidents.  

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/17/2021
  

  Tucker Carlson’s Cries about Immigrants

  by Zachary M. Schrag

  Before Tucker Carlson, Samuel Morse was the nation's leading anti-immigrant troll. And, like Carlson, he attributed evils to Catholic immigrant voters that simply reflected the day's political culture, shared by native-born and immigrant Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/19/2021
  

  The Century-Old Law That Inaugurated Biden’s Border Problems

  by Reece Jones

  This week marked the centennial of the Emergency Quota Act, which established racist quotas for immigration and continues to make immigration policy a political and humanitarian nightmare.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  5/10/2021
  

  The Bloody History of Anti-Asian Violence in the West

  by Kevin Waite

  An 1871 massacre of Chinese residents in Los Angeles was the pinnacle of anti-Asian violence in the late 19th century west. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/26/2021
  

  In the U.S, Praise for Anglo-Saxon Heritage has Always Been about White Supremacy

  by L.D. Burnett

  Labeling American political institutions as "Anglo Saxon heritage" reveals the ugly strain of thought that holds only some ethnic groups are congenitally capable of participating in citizenship. 

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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.