Anti-European nativism recycled emotions first aimed at nonwhite groups
Evidence
What concerns us is the intersection of racial attitudes with nationalistic ones—in other words, the extension to European nationalities of that sense of absolute difference which already divided white Americans from people of other colors. When sentiments analogous to those already discharged against Negroes, Indians, and Orientals spilled over into anti-European channels, a force of tremendous intensity entered the stream of American nativism. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 763
Categorization
- XREF: Shows the ‘enemy’ category for Europeans reused an existing charge-sheet from darker peoples — racialization as transfer mechanism across targets. — connects to: Racism shows natural affinity with anti-modern emotions — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 181; Progressive environmentalism blunted the force of Anglo-Saxon racial nativism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 884; European immigrants earned whiteness by adopting anti-nonwhite antagonism (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- European immigrants earned whiteness by adopting anti-nonwhite antagonism
#corroborates(0.85) - Early twentieth-century US nativism racialized Irish Catholics, Eastern European Jews, and Mormons
#exemplifies(0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 248 - American nativism racialized over time rather than starting as racism
#expands(0.78) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2003 - Progressive environmentalism blunted the force of Anglo-Saxon racial nativism
#contradicts(0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 884 - Racism shows natural affinity with anti-modern emotions
#complicates(0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 181