Beacon Press, Sachbücher, White Borders (Englisch, Reece Jones, 2021)

&ldquo This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that immigration crackdowns &hellip [have] always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a white America.&rdquo &mdash Ibram X. Kendi, award-winning author of Four Hundred Souls and Stamped from the Beginning &ldquo A damning inquiry into the history of the border as a place where race is created and racism honed into a razor-sharp ideology.&rdquo &mdash Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize&ndash winning author of The End of the Myth Recent racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In what readers call a &ldquo chilling and revelatory&rdquo account, Reece Jones reveals the painful answer: although the US is often mythologized as a nation of immigrants, it has a long history of immigration restrictions that are rooted in the racist fear of the &ldquo great replacement&rdquo of whites with non-white newcomers. After the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619, the colonies that became the United States were based on the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and the racial exclusion of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and, eventually, immigrants from other parts of the world. Jones&rsquo s scholarship shines through his extensive research of the United States&rsquo racist and xenophobic underbelly. He connects past and present to uncover the link between the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1880s, the &ldquo Keep America American&rdquo nativism of the 1920s, and the &ldquo Build the Wall&rdquo chants initiated by former president Donald Trump in 2016. Along the way, we meet a bizarre cast of anti-immigration characters, such as John Tanton, Cordelia Scaife May, and Stephen Miller, who pushed fringe ideas about &ldquo white genocide&rdquo and &ldquo race suicide&rdquo into mainstream political discourse. Through gripping stories and in-depth analysis of major immigration cases, Jones explores the connections between anti-immigration hate groups and the Republican Party. What is laid bare after his examination is not just the intersection between white supremacy and anti-immigration bias but also the lasting impacts this perfect storm of hatred has had on United States law.