"In the United States we have two competing mythologies about immigration. On the one hand, we believe that different kinds of races make up an American person. On the other, a deep nativist strain keeps resurfacing. Nevertheless, there has also been strong resistance to nativism. Frederick Douglass, for instance, called the United States a ācomposite nationā when he argued against the Chinese Exclusion Act [of 1882]."
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On the torrid history of immigration in the United States in āMin Jin Lee: 'History has failed almost everybody who is ordinary'ā in The Guardian (2018 Aug 2)
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