Comments on: What I’ve Been Reading http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-ive-been-reading/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:48:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: Duane Moore http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-ive-been-reading/#comment-28359 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:53:46 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=568#comment-28359 I visited the Immigration Museum at Ellis Island last year and one of the exhibits there had a very good history of immigration suggesting that racism against Chinese immigrants was one of the driving factors behind the United States’ first restrictions on immigration. I also found myself wanting to know more and have been looking for recommendations on what is the best book on immigration history.

]]> By: JKB http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-ive-been-reading/#comment-15498 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:51:00 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=568#comment-15498 I’ve found Frederick Lewis Allen’s contemporary histories to be very good reads. But a search of his ‘Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s’ offered little in explanation on the immigration issue beyond:

” Immigration was restricted, being put upon a quota basis, to the satisfaction of labor and the relief of those who felt that the amount of melting being done in the melting-pot was disappointingly small.”

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/allen/cover.html

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