The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent is a historical investigation of how the United States built an immigration system designed not only to regulate entry, but to engineer the nation’s racial and ethnic makeup. Centering on the early twentieth century,...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent is a historical investigation of how the United States built an immigration system designed not only to regulate entry, but to engineer the nation’s racial and ethnic makeup. Centering on the early twentieth century,...
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