By 1924 racial restrictionism had fully displaced economic arguments for restriction
Evidence
For them the fight went on to the bitter end. Since the brunt of the restrictionist attack was aimed more than ever at the supposedly racial qualities of the new immigration, it stung the Jews, the Italians, the Slavs, and the Greeks deeply. The concentration of these nationalities in the manufacturing states of the Northeast and Midwest meant that some of the same Senators responsive to big business had to take the new immigrant vote into account too. The nativists, therefore, still had to deal with a cautious attitude among an influential group of Senators, as well as angry opposition in the House from a small body of immigrant representatives. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1911
Categorization
- XREF: Confirms the reader’s model that the ‘enemy’ category in America shifted from earlier economic/religious/anti-radical targets to a racial form near 1924. — connects to: The 1924 Immigration Act’s national quotas were driven by scientific racism — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 243; Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures; Race ideology trumped economic rationality even at ruinous cost — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 526 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures
#contradicts(0.90) - The 1924 Immigration Act’s national quotas were driven by scientific racism
#corroborates(0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 243 - Race ideology trumped economic rationality even at ruinous cost
#corroborates(0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 526 - Eugenicist ideas provided the scientific cover for the 1924 Immigration Act
#expands(0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 834 - Western radicalism fled the recognition that racialism exceeds economic forces
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