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The Guarded Gate
: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
Daniel Okrent
2019
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A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century
A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.
by
Daniel Okrent
,
Isaac Chotiner
via
The New Yorker
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on
May 16, 2019