One Mighty and Irresistible Tide - Jia Lynn Yang

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

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Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2021
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-86752-7 (ISBN)
18,30 inkl. MwSt
A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today’s roiling debates.
The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants has been at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a law that choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and banning those from Asia.

In a riveting narrative with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists and presidents worked relentlessly for the next forty years—through a world war, a global refugee crisis and McCarthyist fever—to abolish the 1924 law. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, one of the most transformative laws in the country’s history, ended the system of racial biases and opened the door to non-white migration at levels never seen before—changing America in ways that those who debated it could hardly have imagined.

Jia Lynn Yang, the national editor at The New York Times, was previously deputy national security editor at The Washington Post, where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Trump and Russia. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 211 mm
Gewicht 273 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-393-86752-8 / 0393867528
ISBN-13 978-0-393-86752-7 / 9780393867527
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