Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of a Diverse Democracy. By Desmond King. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 320p. $45.00

Edwina Barvosa-Carter

American Political Science Review, 2001, vol. 95, issue 2, 476-476

Abstract: Desmond King offers a richly researched, skillfully written account of the development of a race-based U.S. immigration policy during the 1920s. The shift to a "national origins" immigration policy is linked to domestic racial and ethnic politics and especially to racial segregation. Moreover, King contends that a grasp of the immigration debates and policies of the 1920s is instrumental to understanding contemporary racial and ethnic politics, including the controversies sur- rounding multiculturalism.

Date: 2001
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