European émigré scholars faced anti-foreign prejudice within American academia.

Evidence

In spite of the fact that he has lived in this country for seven years or more, he has a distinctly foreign appearance and speaks with a strong accent. This prejudices some people against him, and I think some are further prejudiced because they feel that there is occasional arrogance in his manner. Actually, Paul is one of the most modest of men, but he does have a rather heavy Germanic way of presenting a topic which tends to make some people feel that there is not as much in the topic as the difficulty in following him would suggest. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 263

Categorization

• SHARE: A sharply specific period detail — Stouffer’s letter to the Columbia appointments board — worth sending to anyone who studies émigré intellectuals or academic hiring cultures.
• XREF: connects to: At scholarly congresses non-European scholars were treated as specimens, not peers; Anti-Catholic prejudice was imported from Europe, not born of local experience; French intellectuals resented German refugee scholars’ work ethic and were less welcoming than Americans — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 177 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: At scholarly congresses non-European scholars were treated as specimens, not peers; Anti-Catholic prejudice was imported from Europe, not born of local experience; French intellectuals resented German refugee scholars’ work ethic and were less welcoming than Americans — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 177 (+1 more)