CarwilBJ's Twitter Archive—№ 21,203

The Immigration Act of 1924 basically created the concept of "illegal immigrant." The racist motivations behind it were transparent and ugly. #noborders #immigrantswelcome
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 3 Favorites 2019 Oct 16 Mood -9 🙁

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Both the 1921 and 1924 immigration acts worked by setting quotas on new immigrants from Europe, according to the prior population balance of the USA.
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood 0

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The difference was that the second law cut the size of the quota by one-third, and set the reference population back from 1910 to 1890, with the purpose being restricting Slavic, Italian, Greek, and Catholic immigrants.
On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood -3 🙁

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President Coolidge followed alleged experts like lawyer & eugenicist Madison Grant, labor economist John Roger Commons, and Vanderbilt U economist Roy Garis in worryng about the racial stock of southern, eastern Europe.
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood +3 🙂

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Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race promoted fears of "lower" European races mixing with "higher" Nordics. theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood +4 🙂

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John R. Commons (Univ of Wisconsin economist) spoke of ""A line drawn across the content of Europe from northeast to southwest [that] … separates countries not only of distinct races but of distinct civilizations."
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"… it separates an educated, thrifty peasantry from a peasantry scarcely a single generation removed from serfdom; it separates Teutonic races from Latin, Slav, Semitic, and Mongolian races.” (Races and Immigrants in America, 1907)
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Roy Garis (Vanderbilt U economist) was both a "researcher" and a popularizer of racist stereotypes as a basis for immigration policy.
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Garis wrote of the "Mexican Invasion" in The Saturday Evening Post, but their editorialists were already all in on that fear.
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood -3 🙁

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Garis packaged several dozen pages of extensive interviews with racists of the southwest into a "report" on Mexican immgration, which he submitted for the Congressional Record. They duly took it seriously.
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood -3 🙁

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Obviously, not all economists or social scientists held these views, but the racists were far more vocal and willing to write for the popular press, according to a scholarly review of the period… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/1520-6696(197910)15:4%3C310::AID-JHBS2300150403%3E3.0.CO;2-Y
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood 0

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"social scientists writing popular articles were more likely to support an outmoded racial interpretation of immigration. Their resulting support of immigration restriction was not representative of the dominant cultural perspective held by most social scientists."
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood +5 🙂

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Re-reading Roy Garis' "report" last night, I found a shocking lack of any research methodology or basic verification of facts.
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood -4 🙁

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Any academic who experiences impostor syndrome should take a long hard look at the freewheeling way in which social prejudices are recycled as expert opinion by people unashamed to present their own bigoted views as science. And then start speaking up.
Permalink On twitter.com 2019 Oct 16 Mood -1 🙁