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ISBN-10: 1541672615
ISBN-13: 9781541672611
Publisher: Basic Books
Publish Date: 06/15/2021
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 1.50" H

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

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This definitive history of American xenophobia is “essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist)

The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their “strange and foreign ways.” Americans’ anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported.

Today, Americans fear Muslims, Latinos, and the so-called browning of America. Forcing us to confront this history, Lee explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America. Now updated with an afterword reflecting on how the coronavirus pandemic turbocharged xenophobia, America for Americans is an urgent spur to action for any concerned citizen.

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"She persuasively expresses that current hostilities over national borders are no exception to the nation's history. This clearly organized and lucidly written book should be read by a wide audience."–Publishers Weekly
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ISBN-10: 1541672615
ISBN-13: 9781541672611
Publisher: Basic Books
Publish Date: 06/15/2021
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 1.50" H
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