| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1924. By Kristofer Allerfeldt. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. xii, 235 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97854-0.)

Kristofer Allerfeldt's book is a welcome piece of research on an under-treated subject. His focus is on the roots and rise of nativism in the Northwest region and its responses to Catholic newcomers, the International Workers of the World (Wobblies), and Japanese immigrants. Central to his analysis is the growing urbanization yet feelings of threat in rural areas, the pronounced shift from "old" to "new" immigration, and the increasing "changes in the perception of immigrants throughout the period" (p. 16). The region became increasingly conservative, and exaggerated conformity became more evident, together with exaggerated perceived threats of alien dangers. This siege mentality, in part in defense of "nostalgic Protestantism" (p. 32), is explored in three chapters on religion, radicalism, and race, with the focus on three target populations, Catholics, Wobblies, and Japanese.

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