The new immigration became a target largely because prior enemy categories failed
Evidence
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: Strong support for the reader’s thesis that racialization is a transitional form the ‘enemy’ category passes through when older symbolic targets (Pope, anarchist) wear out. — connects to: Failed immigrant adaptation makes some vulnerable to jihadist recruitment; A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1012; Identity formation requires defining enemies across cultural fault lines. (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Pied-noir FN voting stems from mapping colonial enemies onto today’s immigrants
#exemplifies(0.85) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 854 - A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets
#expands(0.82) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1012 - Designated enemy groups expand over time beyond their original definition
#corroborates(0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3966 - Failed immigrant adaptation makes some vulnerable to jihadist recruitment
#corroborates(0.75) - Identity formation requires defining enemies across cultural fault lines.
#expands(0.70)