HIST 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Shooting Of Laquan Mcdonald, Shooting Of Tamir Rice, Death Of Sandra Bland
8 May 2017
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Chinese were the only group singled out early on. 1920s laws written in a racialized, white supremacist fashion. With little to no debate, 1920s restrictions vanished. There were less than a million asians then, now there are nearly 20 million. Had various complexities because of how long some hispanics were rooted in the us and how assimilation worked. Began in large part against germans who were seen as lazy and alcoholic, and thus threats to. Anti-catholicism was a huge force in us society, especially in the writing of the 1920s immigration laws. Catholics would listen to the pope before the us. For the most part of history, these fears have been baseless. Assimilation tends to occur naturally with the second generation. Have very long roots in the us in many cases going back to 1965. Going towards a period where whites will be the minority. Cities have been the centers of cosmopolitan cultural values and new pluralism.
