| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890–1930. By Frank Van Nuys. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xv + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

In Americanizing the West, Frank Van Nuys describes how Americanization of immigrants in the region was the goal of Americanizers, but they failed in that goal due to their racial construct of, particularly, Mexican and Asian immigrants as unacceptable as citizens. At the core of the Americanizers views was the idea that "white" pioneers had "civilized" the West and that only whites could be citizens of the country. Given that Americanizers from the public schools, universities, and federal bureaucracies worked hard to create an American homogeneity through education, it remains puzzling why they could not see the "racial" flaw in their plans.

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