Make America 1919 Again? Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, a Century and Back
Campus News | Tuesday, December 18, 2018
February 22 event: The resurgence of Nativism is irrefutable in today’s partisan politics, which includes campaign promises for a border wall, a travel ban from six predominantly Muslim countries, “alt-right” demonstrations, and an open mean-spiritedness.
“Make America 1919 Again? Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, a Century and Back” will attempt to make sense of current events by examining similar issues from a century ago, especially by addressing the virulent xenophobia unleashed by a world war, the 100 percent American movement, the second coming of the Ku Klux Klan, the antiradicalism of the Red Scare, and 1920s legislation restricting immigration based on national origins.
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