The guarded gate : bigotry, eugenics, and the law that kept two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European immigrants out of America /
Eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. By 1921 Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that 'biological laws' had pr...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Scribner,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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