Ben Railton

@AmericanStudier

Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing boys. We the People out now! New project on competing American patriotisms. he/him

Needham and Fitchburg, MA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: studeni 2010.

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    Today's author highlight is one of my favorite American novelists, the great (& still under-read & -rated) Nella Larsen!

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  2. prije 3 sata

    PS. Which makes 's vital role as a central voice & representative of the undocumented American community particularly striking!

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    Fortunately the laws didn't succeed, & this 200 year old American community remained a vital part of America. But no moment helps us understand the fundamentally discriminatory & exclusionary side to how our immigration laws developed than this one.

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    Congress did so w/the 34 Tydings-McDuffie Act (as well as the 35 Filipino Repatriation Act), promising future independence for the islands in exchange for defining Filipino Americans as "aliens" & seeking both to exclude future arrivals & to destroy the existing community.

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  5. prije 4 sata

    In the 30s, w/the US occupying the Philippines (having fought a 15-year war of occupation to remain there), Filipinos were exempt from the 20s Quota Acts & any immigration laws. Yet xenophobic forces pushed Congress to construct loopholes in order to exclude Filipino Americans.

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    Perhaps no single law better reveals the discriminatory & exclusionary realities behind the history of laws than the subject of today's post, the 1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act!

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  8. prije 6 sati

    I was snuggling w/my older son on the couch for a moment before school this morning, & he asked a question about my current project that helped me clarify & crystallize a key part of my ideas & arguments. Never let it be said that hugs & love can't change the world, my friends.

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    prije 7 sati

    I thoroughly enjoyed Nancy Isenberg's Burr biography.

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  10. prije 7 sati

    Happy Aaron Burr Day! Certainly one of my most controversial Memory Day nominees, but I'm w/Gore Vidal--you can't tell the story of the Revolution & Early Republic w/out Burr, & for more than just being the damn fool that shot him.

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  11. prije 18 sati

    Cocoa, comfy chair, critical patriotism after competitive card game (pre-bedtime). The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.

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    5. velj

    Honored to have been invited to be a guest on this season of the How To Be American podcast! Hope y’all tune in next Thursday for the premiere

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  13. 5. velj

    All reasons to better remember the Immigration Act of 1917, & its lasting exclusionary legacies, on the anniversary of its passage!

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  14. 5. velj

    & the 1917 Act also imposed a literacy test, a move toward the emphases on educational & professional levels & skills that remained in place even after the 1965 Immigration Act did away w/ethnic & national exclusions--& have returned w/a vengeance in 2020 policies.

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    But in two key ways, the 1917 Act extended exclusion in areas that we still see playing out so fully in our 2020 debates & discriminations. The law imposed a tax on immigrants, seeking to keep out those who were not perceived as meeting national ideals of wealth & status.

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  16. 5. velj

    As a bridge, the Immigration Act of 1917 extended the concept of exclusion to virtually all Asian immigrants to the US, creating an "Asiatic Barred Zone" that made this a truly Asian Exclusion Era until at least World War II (other than the Philippines, on which more tomorrow!).

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  17. 5. velj

    On 2/5/1917, the Immigration Act of 1917 passed. In many ways it's the forgotten law bt Chinese Exclusion Act & the 1920s Quota Acts, but the 1917 bridged those two moments & created aspects of law that remain in place today.

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    5. velj

    Lillian Smith in 1944. "We know that under that poverty, beyond that waste, is abundance for all. . . . We know there can be a world where men can be free and without hunger, where there can be dignity and compassion and intelligence and gayety."

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  19. 5. velj

    And he thinks it’s about a page long. Shockeroo.

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  20. 5. velj

    Never had to draft an entire manuscript during a semester before, & it's really tough. But getting better at writing a few words in office moments like this am, to keep the momentum of last night's few going into what'll hopefully be tonight's few! Solidarity w/everyone writing.

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