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America for Americans

A History of Xenophobia in the United States

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America for Americans

De: Erika Lee
Narrado por: Shayna Small
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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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"This sweeping account draws parallels between Benjamin Franklin's worry over 'swarthy' Germans 'herding together' in the eighteenth century and Donald Trump's race-baiting today. Xenophobia, Lee argues, has been an indelible 'American tradition,' deployed to social and political ends since the country's founding. A manifesto as much as a history, the book shows how every large immigrant group since Franklin's time—Irish, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Middle Eastern—was 'scripted' by populist demagogues as alien and threatening."—The New Yorker

"Including everything from Chinese Exclusion to recent travel bans, America for Americans exposes the folly in arguments that position the U.S. as an eternally anti-racist society."—Bustle

"Lee 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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Thoroughly researched and systematically presented. Constitutes an important but neglected history of the little known xenophobia that helps to explain the current irrational and immoral behavior of many of today's misguided political sycophants.

Thorough history of immigration in U.S.

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This indispensable work helps us understand some of our society’s basest moments and prepares us for the sick sad next ones. The Audible experience is marred by mispronunciations of common nouns (it’s “gubernatorial,” not “gubernational”) and names (Jacob Javits pronounced his J’s just the way they look).

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Topics covered here are essential to understanding how xenophic rhetoric is used in politics today.

Essential to Understanding America

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Erika Lee does it again with a well written, thoughtful book about a history we often ignore or are unaware of. This book provides the answers to the questions we ask today about the USA.

Phenomenal Read

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