Are ’Orientals’ a Race or a Nationality?: Immigration Restriction of Asians and Jews in the Early 20th Century
For:
UT students
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In 1924, Congress enacted the severest immigration restrictions in U.S. history. Alongside steep reductions to European immigration, the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act all but ended Asian and Jewish immigration as well. This lecture from Dr. Madeline Y. Hsu, UT history professor, explores evolving conceptions of racial and national difference that were used to legally and institutionally identify and exclude people as unwanted prospective immigrants. Learn more.
Presented by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and co-sponsored by the Center for Asian American Studies, the Department of History, and the Major in Race, Indigeneity, and Migration.