(1999). The architecture of race in American immigration law: A reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924. The Journal of American History, 86, 67 - 92.Mae M.Ngai."The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law:A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924".The Journal of ...
[93] The Immigration Act of 1924 provided that no "alien ineligible for citizenship" could be admitted as an immigrant to the United States, consolidating the prohibition of Asian immigration.[94] 【参考译文】从19世纪80年代到20世纪20年代,美国通过了一系列法律,开启了排斥亚洲移民的时代。尽管与来自...
This opposition finally led to the Immigration Act of 1924 that restricted further immigration, particularly from Europe. Some other groups continued to come and concentrate in different areas—Mexicans in Texas and California and Cubans in Florida. Many recent immigrants are from Central American count...
Grant explains that he wrote the book as a result of the Immigration Act of 1924 (the Johnson-Reed Act), which set national quotas for immigration. The quotas were based on the ethnic/national mix of 1890, and he was incensed by the maneuverings of Catholics and non-Nordics to inflate ...
Francisco Earthquake in 1906, many Japanese residents moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles, bumping up its population to10,000. Like the other Asian enclaves, however, growth in Little Tokyo was hindered as a result of the Exclusion Act of 1924, which barred future immigration from Asian ...
whose only purpose in history was to prepare for the arrival of his Son. According to this view, the Jews should have left the scene. Their continued survival seemed to be an act of stubborn defiance. Exile was taken as a sign of divine disfavour incurred by the Jews’ denial that Jesus...
(二)Slowing Down of Immigration The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson-Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, Asian Exclusion Act, was a United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that ...
government of thousands ofJapanese Americansto detention camps duringWorld War II. That action was theculminationof the federal government’s long history of racist and discriminatory treatment of Asian immigrants and their descendants that had begun with restrictive immigration policies in the late 1800...
also wrote the majority opinion in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, which upheld the public accommodations provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the majority opinions in Garner v. Board of Public Works, Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, and Abington School District v. Schem...
and was a strong supporter of the 1924 Immigration Act, which privileged the immigration of Northern Europeans. He supported activist groups that wished to repatriate blacks to Africa and that opposed racial integration. Draper also funded the work of two Congressional committees that opposed John F...