All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants

All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It (Jacobin)

American history told from the vantage of immigration politics

It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia. Among his first acts on taking office was to block foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. But although his actions may often seem unprecedented, they are not as unusual as many people believe. This story doesnâ€™t begin with Trump. For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have employed xenophobic ideas and policies, declaring time and again that â€œillegal immigrationâ€ is a threat to the nationâ€™s security, wellbeing, and future.

The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people, Trump began to look reasonable. As Daniel Denvir argues, issues as diverse as austerity economics, free trade, mass incarceration, the drug war, the contours of the post 9/11 security state, and, yes, Donald Trump and the Alt-Right movement are united by the ideology of nativism, which binds together assorted anxieties and concerns into a ruthless political project.

All-American Nativism provides a powerful and impressively researched account of the long but often forgotten history that gave us Donald Trump.
Country USA
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2020-01-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2020-01-14
Format	Kindle eBook

All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It (Jacobin)