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Joel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about raci

When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing i

Immigration is one of the driving forces behind social change in the United States, continually reshaping the way Americans think about race and ethnicity. How

Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good

“Anyone who believes that the American racial structure is characterized by unmovable white/black boundaries should read this book.” —Michèle Lamont, Har