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Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of a Diverse Democracy. By Desmond King. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 320p. $45.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2005

Edwina Barvosa-Carter
Edwina Barvosa-Carter
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University of California, Santa Barbara,,
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Desmond King offers a richly researched, skillfully written account of the development of a race-based U.S. immigration policy during the 1920s. The shift to a "national origins" immigration policy is linked to domestic racial and ethnic politics and especially to racial segregation. Moreover, King contends that a grasp of the immigration debates and policies of the 1920s is instrumental to understanding contemporary racial and ethnic politics, including the controversies sur- rounding multiculturalism.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 95 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 476
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2001 by the American Political Science Association
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