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 : bigotry, eugenics, and the law that kept two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European immigrants out of America / Daniel Okrent.

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Publisher's description: From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Okrent, the definitive and timely account of a forgotten dark chapter of American history. The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American his...

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Main Author: Okrent, Daniel, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2019.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Eugenics > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Sterilization (Birth control) > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Discrimination in medical care > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Human reproduction > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Emigration and immigration law > United States > History.
Discrimination in medical care > Law and legislation.
Emigration and immigration law.
Eugenics > Law and legislation.
Human reproduction > Law and legislation.
Sterilization (Birth control) > Law and legislation.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Ellis Island, 1925
  • The future betterment of the human race
  • Thrifty, capable Yankee blood
  • The warfare of the cradle
  • The kindled fire
  • Short, sober, musical rapists
  • To hell with Jews, Jesuits, and steamships!
  • Heaven-sent Madison Grant
  • A carnival of exclusion
  • The coming of the quota
  • Science is our polestar
  • 6,346,856 inferior immigrants
  • Without foundation
  • The train of consequences
  • Liberty Island, 1965.

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