Generalized anti-foreign attacks historically precede targeting a group as a unique racial menace

Evidence

The first type of attack was midwife to the second. The new immigrants had the very bad luck to arrive in America en masse at a time when nativism was already running at full tilt, and when neither anarchist nor Jesuit afforded a wholly satisfactory victim for it. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 518

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: English rule-of-law ideology rationalized large-scale attacks on Native communities — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 466; Racial and radical anti-foreign attacks coexisted, not supplanted one another — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 818; Generic anti-foreign feelings rerouted onto new targets when old enemies failed — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 517 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• English rule-of-law ideology rationalized large-scale attacks on Native communities #exemplifies (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 466