Given Increasing Immigration in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

question 72

Essay

Given increasing immigration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from non-European countries, white male government officials gave much attention to who was, or was not, "white." Explain how this focus is evocative of present-day white racial framing.

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Definitions:

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