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In the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States--a greater number than in any comparable period, before or since. They were often greeted in hostile fashion, a reflection of American nativism that by the 1890s was already well developed. In this analytical narrative, Roger Daniels examines the condition of immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans during a period of supposed progress for American minorities. He shows that they experienced as much repression as advance. Not Like Us opens by considering the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the hinge on which U.S. immigration policy turned and a symbol of the unfriendly climate toward minorities that would prevail for decades. Mr. Daniels continues the story through the 1890s, the so-called Progressive Era, the opportunities and conflicts arising out of World War I, and the "tribal twenties," when nativism and xenophobia dominated American society. An epilogue points out gains and losses since the 1924 National Origins Act. Throughout Mr. Daniels's focus is on legislation, judicial decisions, mob violence, and the responses of minority groups. The record is scarcely one of unalloyed progress.
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Although more than 20 million immigrants came to the U.S. from 1890 to 1924, Daniels (Coming to America) argues convincingly here that the period was marked by hostility and violence toward immigrants, African Americans and Native Americans. Drawing on extensive research, the author details the growth of anti-immigrant feeling, or nativism, that began with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which halted the influx of Chinese laborers and culminated in the National Origins Act of 1924, establishing a rigid immigrant quota system. In this objective and clearly written analysis, Daniels describes government theft of Native American lands and mob violence (e.g., lynchings) against African Americans. He notes that the rise of nativism resulted in literacy laws that further restricted immigration and sparked widespread discrimination against German, Irish, Italian and Asian immigrants. Although he sees improvements in U.S. policy toward minorities and immigrants, he believes many Americans are still prejudiced against these groups. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Daniels, one of the preeminent US scholars of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans, has written a very readable work that at once synthesizes the history of immigration to the US from 1890 to 1924 and analyzes the integration of the immigrants into an ethnically pluralistic and intensely racially conscious and racist society. During this period, an unprecedented number of immigrants--some 20 million--arrived in the US from many more places of origin than had ever been the case previously. Both the volume and the diversity of immigrants provoked an unparalleled outbreak of nativism, which abated only with the passage of the 1924 National Origins Act, enacted to curtail immigration sharply and thus hailed by nativists as a great triumph for white supremacy. In this lucid study, Daniels compares the country's reception of various immigrants--giving particular attention to Germans, Irish, Italians, Jews, and Asians--with the plight of longtime American minority groups, i.e., Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexican Americans. He asserts that American nativism must be understood in the context of the nation's struggle over race and ethnicity during the age of industrialization and imperialism. Alluding briefly in an epilogue to the vastly differential treatment given to the American descendants of US WW II enemies, Daniels nevertheless attempts to find some hope "towards equality," that is, an end to white supremacy and racial injustice in the US. General readers; undergraduates. E. Hu-DeHart; University of Colorado at Boulder