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a| 1541672615
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a| 9781541672611
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a| E184.A1
b| L4135 2021
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a| Lee, Erika.
e| author
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a| America for Americans :
b| a history of xenophobia in the United States /
c| Erika Lee
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a| History of xenophobia in the United States
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a| First trade paperback edition
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a| New York :
b| Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC,
c| 2021
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c| ©2019
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a| vii, 462 pages :
b| illustrations ;
c| 21 cm
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a| text
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a| unmediated
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a| volume
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a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-442) and index
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a| "Originally published in hardcover by Basic Books in 2019"--Tittle verso
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a| "Strangers to our language and constitutions" -- "Americans must rule America" -- "The Chinese are no more" -- The "inferior races" of Europe -- "Getting rid of the Mexicans" -- "Military necessity" -- Xenophobia and civil rights -- "Save our state" -- Islamophobia -- Epilogue to the paperback edition : When xenophobia spreads like a virus
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a| 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 epilogue 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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a| BGCFOLIO
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a| Xenophobia
z| United States
x| History
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a| Immigrants
z| United States
x| History
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a| Minorities
z| United States
x| History
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a| Nationalism
z| United States
x| History
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a| United States
x| Race relations
x| History
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a| United States
x| Emigration and immigration
x| History