{"product_id":"not-fit-for-our-society-nativism-and-immigration-9780520269910","title":"Not Fit for Our Society: Nativism and Immigration","description":"In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over the same questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds that nativism has long colored our national history, and that the fear-and loathing-of newcomers has provided one of the faultlines of American cultural and political life. Schrag describes the eerie similarities between the race-based arguments for restricting Irish, German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese immigrants in the past and the arguments for restricting Latinos and others today. He links the terrible history of eugenic \"science\" to ideas, individuals, and groups now at the forefront of the fight against rational immigration policies. \u003ci\u003eNot Fit for Our Society \u003c\/i\u003emakes a powerful case for understanding the complex, often paradoxical history of immigration restriction as we work through the issues that inform, and often distort, the debate over who can become a citizen, who decides, and on what basis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Schrag, \u003c\/b\u003e for many years the editorial page editor and later a weekly columnist for the \u003ci\u003eSacramento Bee, \u003c\/i\u003e currently contributes to \u003ci\u003eThe Nation, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCalifornia: America's High-Stakes Experiment \u003c\/i\u003e(both from UC Press) and \u003ci\u003eFinal Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools. \u003c\/i\u003e Peter Schrag is the 2010 winner of the Carey McWilliams Award from the California Studies Association.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844590899474,"sku":"9780520269910","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5944c5a6-6459-4d45-a14e-4cb3cd08161e.jpg?v=1737326380","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/not-fit-for-our-society-nativism-and-immigration-9780520269910","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}