America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census
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When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved hard to do. Ideas about racial or national difference were slippery, contested, and yet consequential--were "Hebrews" a "race," a "religion," or a "people"? As Joel Perlmann shows, a self-appointed pair of officials created the government's...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674425057
ISBN13:9780674425057
Release Date:March 2018
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:464 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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