Nation of Strangers: Prejudice, Politics, and the Populating America

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Today Asia provides four times as many newcomers to America as does all of Europe, and millions of other would-be U.S. citizens pour in yearly from throughout the non-European world. That is a stunning new reality whose ramifications affect every facet of American life. How this situation has evolved and what the next chapter holds are subjects that touch everyone who has ever wondered whether a nation professing to believe in human equality can create harmony among peoples fundamentally dissimilar--in color, ...
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Today Asia provides four times as many newcomers to America as does all of Europe, and millions of other would-be U.S. citizens pour in yearly from throughout the non-European world. That is a stunning new reality whose ramifications affect every facet of American life. How this situation has evolved and what the next chapter holds are subjects that touch everyone who has ever wondered whether a nation professing to believe in human equality can create harmony among peoples fundamentally dissimilar--in color, culture, means, and expectations. In reviewing more than two hundred years of the American experience, A Nation of Strangers shows that many of the questions raised by America's newest immigrants are identical to those raised by earlier waves. How many newcomers can the country comfortably absorb? What should be required of those seeking admission? Will the native-born suffer if foreigners come in? Every generation has grappled with such questions. The result has been a constant tension between the desire to welcome and the impulse to exclude. On one hand, America has taken in more immigrants than any other nation on earth. Yet, she has repeatedly given in to xenophobia and paranoia--and consequently excluded thousands fleeing Naziism or, more recently, trying to escape repression in Haiti. In the beginning the immigrants--African slaves excepted--were overwhelmingly British; and colonial leaders assumed the United States would continue to be made up predominantly of Protestants of British origin. By the mid-1800s, however, that assumption was vanishing beneath a wave of Irish-Catholic and German immigration. Following the Civil War, blacks were granted naturalization and citizenship rights. Later in the century, a new flood of immigrants arrived--many of them Jews or Catholics from eastern and southern Europe. In the 1940s Chinese, East Indians, and other Asians were eligible for naturalization. By the middle 1980s, the English flow had become little more
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
``We must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately,'' noted Ben Franklin upon signing the Declaration of Independence. America has teetered on the precipice between unity and discord ever since its inception, according to this account of American immigration policies and prejudices. Cose, editorial page editor of the New York Daily News , recounts a dark side of American history--the bigotry he considers endemic in our culture, whether seen in our exclusion of Jewish refugees during WW II or, more recently, in our treatment of Haitians. As described by Cose, the American legacy of exclusion makes for painful reading. But it is important to remember, and this author forcefully pricks the national conscience. (Mar.)
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More than ever, America is a nation of immigrants. Beginning with Western Europeans and Africans in the 17th and 18th centuries, the nation has been flooded with Asians, Eastern Europeans, and Hispanics in mind-boggling numbers. At the moment, Asians clearly dominate immigration statistically, but, as New York Daily News editor Cose proposes, immigration has always been a political as well as social phenomena. In an engrossing book, Cose provides the setting for how politics shapes immigration policy. The impact of immigration leaves many impressions, none of which is more telling than the comments of San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, who concludes taxpayers not only oppose paying for schools after their children have finished but also oppose paying for educating people who do not even look the same. This thoughtful treatise on American immigration is recommended for all libraries.--Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., Ala.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780688093372
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 3/28/1992
  • Edition description: 1st Edition
  • Pages: 288

Meet the Author

Ellis Cose
Ellis Cose

Ellis Cose, author of seven books, including the bestselling The Envy of the World, Color-Blind, and The Rage of a Privileged Class, is a columnist and contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. He has appeared on Nightline, Dateline, Good Morning America, PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR, and other national television and radio programs. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: In Search of the Perfect American 9
1 Roots of Intolerance 17
2 Years of Confusion, Days of Rage 31
3 An Aroused West, an Excluded East 42
4 Radicals, Race, and New Restrictions 58
5 A War Ends, an Era of Isolation Begins 68
6 A Second War, Some Second Thoughts 82
7 Keeping Them Out 94
8 A Reluctant Reform 103
9 A Legacy of Vietnam 116
10 From Mariel to Miami 130
11 After the Deluge 145
12 No Room for Compromise 162
13 A Movement for the Eighties 190
14 A Better Class of Immigrant 195
Epilogue: The Centrality of Race, the Challenge of Diversity 209
Notes 220
Partial Bibliography 272
Index 285
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