White Borders

The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall

White Borders
Reece Jones
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18 Oct 2022 US
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9780807007266
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The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white America. Racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering- How did we get here? In a sweeping account, Reece Jones reveals that although the US is often mythologized as a nation of immigrants, it has a long history of immigration restrictions that are rooted in the racist fear of the "great replacement" of whites with non-white immigrants. After the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619, the colonies that became the United States were based on the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and racial exclusion of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and, eventually, immigrants from other parts of the world. Connecting past to present, Jones uncovers the link between the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1880s, the "Keep America American" nativism of the 1920s, and the "Build the Wall" chants initiated by former president Trump in 2016. Along the way, we meet a bizarre cast of characters, such as John Tanton, Cordelia Scaife May, and Stephen Miller, who moved fringe ideas about "white genocide" and "race suicide" into mainstream political discourse. Through gripping stories and in-depth analysis, Jones explores the connections between anti-immigration hate groups and the Republican Party, exposing the lasting impacts of white supremacist ideas on United States law.
"A highly recommended, in-depth history of migration that accounts for the lives affected by American border policing and immigration restrictions. " -Library Journal, Starred Review "The author' s ability to connect the dots is impressive-and depressing, since the politics of ethnic hatred persist. " -Kirkus Reviews "White Borders is a searing indictment of the US immigration restrictions from Chinese Exclusion through the Trump presidency. This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that while immigration crackdowns are justified as protecting jobs and workers, they' ve always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a white America. " -Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "With eloquent prose and masterful storytelling, Reece Jones narrates the hard history of immigration policies of the US settler colonial state that was founded and rooted in white supremacy, from Chinese exclusion to the border wall. " -Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States "Reece Jones' s White Borders is a damning inquiry into the history of the border as a place where race is created and racism honed into a razor-sharp ideology. Deeply researched and movingly written, White Borders is an indispensable book. " -Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth "Reece Jones guides us through the long, tangled, and still developing history of how the United States came to know itself as a nation through the increasingly strict control of movement across its borders. Jones demonstrates in this assiduously researched and carefully crafted book that the nation' s borders are in fact central to making the state what it is: a key tool in the maintenance not just of white supremacy but of whiteness itself. " -Brendan O' Connor, author of Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right
Reece Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a professor in and the chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai' i. He has researched immigration for over 20 years and is the author of Border Walls and Violent Borders, over two dozen journal articles, and four edited books. He is editor in chief of the journal Geopolitics and lives in Honolulu with his family. Connect with him on Twitter at @ReeceJonesUH.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780807007266
Published: 18 Oct 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 256

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