AMCULT 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arab Americans, Consus, Gerrymandering
3 Dec 2017
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In the early 1900s, there was an intense feeling of nativism (i. e. 1924. Immigration ban), like trump with the immigration ban. This wasn"t something that happened overnight, people were pushing the federal government to do this. The idea that the wrong number or the wrong kind of immigrants coming into the us. Paradox: us needs immigrants for industrialization but sees them as a burden. Anti-immigrant sentiment leads to 1924 immigration act. Article by mclaughlin in popular science, 1904. Part of us government study of immigration. Us immigration commission"s 40-volume 1911 report, whose recommendation was to restrict undesirable immigration . Early syrian racial identification - based on rev. Syrian americans saw themselves more as a people, than what we think of as race. They saw their race as being built through their history and actions; not skin color. Argued that they must tell the world of their achievements (in religion, industry, and science) in order to be understood/accepted.
