<<The>> guarded gate bigotry, eugenics, and the law that kept two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European immigrants out of America
Eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. By 1921 Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that 'biological laws' had pr...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, New Delhi
Scribner
May 2019
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| Ausgabe: | First Scribner hardcover edition |
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Eugenics / Law and legislation / United States / History
> Sterilization (Birth control) / Law and legislation / United States / History
> Emigration and immigration law / United States / History
> Discrimination in medical care / Law and legislation / United States / History
> Human reproduction / Law and legislation / United States / History
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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> United States / Immigration Act of 1924
> United States / Emigration and immigration / History
> USA
> Diskriminierung
> Eugenik
> Gesetzgebung
> Reproduktionsmedizin
> Sterilisation
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. By 1921 Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that 'biological laws' had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law that remained U.S. policy until 1965 was enacted three years later. Okrent connects the work of the American eugenicists to Nazi racial policies and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | "From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Okrent, the definitive and timely account of a forgotten dark chapter of American history. The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history and the men who turned their 'science' into politics. Brandished by the upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers--many of them progressives--who led the anti-immigration movement, eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. In the early 1890s, Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins began a three-decade campaign to close the immigration door.^ |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 478 Seiten, 8 Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Portraits 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781476798035 9781476798059 |