| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy. By Desmond King. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 388 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0674-00088-9.)

Immigration history is one of the most important historical topics in a nation that consists largely of the offspring of voluntary or involuntary immigrants. Immigration history is also a well-established field among United States historians and their colleagues in countries that have contributed to the steady or not-so-steady influx of newcomers to American shores. Desmond King therefore cannot but deal with familiar events, people, and places, but he does so in a new and exciting way. 1

Using a wide array of primary sources in the National Archives and the Library of Congress and focusing on the shift of United States immigration policy in the 1920s and the system of selection that was developed with it, he establishes the important connection between immigration policy and the agenda of eugenists in the United States. On the other hand, he ably demonstrates how immigrants' different values have always been included in the discourse about the desirability of immigration. This debate not only regulated the amount and the status of immigrants coming to this country but also assigned an even inferior status to people who were born within the United States and who were United States citizens, though somewhat restricted citizens: African Americans. . . .

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