The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
(Part of the Gender and Race in American History Series)
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Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the logic that shaped immigration restriction policies throughout the twentieth century.
Jeanne Petit argues that the literacy test debate was about much...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1580463487
ISBN13:9781580463485
Release Date:October 2010
Publisher:University of Rochester Press
Length:214 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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