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Douglas Massey

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Today's U.S.-Mexico "Border Crisis' in 6 Charts

Immigration from Mexico is actually decreasing.

by Douglas Massey via The Conversation on June 27, 2018
Confederate Revisionist History

Americans should not honor a revolt to uphold slavery with monuments or florid displays.

by Douglas Massey via Public Books on November 8, 2017

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Alleged enemy aliens on way to detention camp, Gloucester, New Jersey, 1918.

The Alien Enemies Act: Annotated

Confused about the oft-mentioned Alien Enemies Act? This explainer, with links to free peer-reviewed scholarship, may help clear things up.

by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on April 25, 2025

Row of suburban homes.

White America Facing Its Ghosts

The slow unraveling of a nation’s suburbs.

by Benjamin Herold via Literary Hub on January 23, 2024

Pancho Villa, Prostitutes and Spies: The U.S.-Mexico Border Wall’s Wild Origins

President Trump's trip to the border Thursday to demand a $5.7 billion wall marks another chapter in the boundary's tortured history.

by Michael E. Miller via Retropolis on January 10, 2019

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex in Dallas.

Republicans Want to Use Immigration Policy to Make America Whiter. They’re Destined to Fail.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

by Julia G. Young via Made By History on February 6, 2018

Redlining map for Decatur, Illinois

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

In the 1930s, the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major U.S. city. Explore those maps and their contexts in a brand new version of this project.

by N. D. B. Connolly, Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Justin Madron, Todd Michney, Richard Marciano, J. S. Hoffman, Helen C. S. Meier via American Panorama on October 12, 2016

Over the next 50 years, Asians will surge past Latinos to become the largest group of immigrants heading to the U.S., according to a new study. Above, a naturalization ceremony in New York City in 2013.

The Law That Created Illegal Immigration

Discussion of the Hart-Cellar Act that was passed 50 years ago.

by Jane H. Hong via Los Angeles Times on October 2, 2015

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