Immigrants Out! by Juan F. Perea - 9780814766422

Immigrants Out!The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States\nAuthor(s): Juan F. Perea\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814766422, 978-0814766422\nSynopsis\nAn original anthology of essays illuminating the role of nativism in America's history\n Nativisman intense opposition to immigrants and other non- native members of societyhas been deeply imbedded in the American character from the earliest days of the nation. Correspondingly, nativism, overtly or covertly, has always permeated our national discourse. Dating from the Alien and Sedition controversy of 1798 to California's recent Proposition 187, nativism has long been a driving force in policy making, a particular irony in a country founded and populated by immigrants.\nThis anthology of original essays is informed at its core by George Santayana's famous edict that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to re.