A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets

Evidence

Along with the social impact of the new immigration, the South and the Far West in the early twentieth century were also tingling with the ideological stimulus of a new nationalism. Perhaps the kind of nationalism that flourished in the wake of the Spanish-American War did as much as anything else to enable the guardians of white supremacy to discharge their feelings on the new foreign groups. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1012

Categorization

• XREF: Bear on the reader’s thesis that solidarity is manufactured via constructed external enemies contingent on a political-national trigger, overriding whatever primordial anti-outgroup feeling pre-existed. — connects to: The old-new immigration distinction was read backward onto the eighties by later nativists — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 383; The new immigration became a target largely because prior enemy categories failed — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 518; Imperial racist ideas re-imported into the US conditioned immigrant minds — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 752 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• When one manufactured enemy faded, nationalism simply found a new target form #corroborates (0.95) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1398
• The new right replaced racial supremacy with cultural uniformity under nationalism #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 130
• Cultural difference has replaced race as the basis for new racisms #corroborates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 866
• Race is a recent ideological configuration distinct from older xenophobic traditions #qualifies (0.75)
• Imperial racist ideas re-imported into the US conditioned immigrant minds #expands (0.70) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 752