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JD Vance is Just Another Know Nothing Nativist
MAGA has been a largely white movement of non-urban people who seem to think that people unlike them are scary and that there is only safety in homogeneity.
by
Rebecca Solnit
via
Literary Hub
on
August 23, 2024
Immigration and Mental Health Collide, Again
Trump's seeming mixup of asylum-seeking refugees with patients in psychiatric institutions stems from a long rhetorical and political tradition.
by
Jeremy Peschard
via
The Abusable Past
on
June 20, 2024
partner
The Disturbing Precedent for Busing Migrants to Other States
In the 19th century, Americans dumped poor migrants overseas. Now some governors are shipping them off to other states.
by
Hidetaka Hirota
via
Made By History
on
August 16, 2022
Nativism, Conspiracy Theories, and Mobs in Federalist America
Many people celebrate the U.S. as a nation of immigrants, but nativism has infused its politics from the outset.
by
Sean P. Harvey
via
The Panorama
on
December 14, 2021
Exhibit
The Many Faces of Nativism
As this exhibit shows, anti-immigrant sentiment has been a throughline of American history.
There Was an Ashli Babbitt in the 19th Century. His Story Is a Warning.
To understand the right’s plans for Babbitt, look to George Shiffler.
by
Zachary M. Schrag
via
Slate
on
September 1, 2021
Degeneration Nation
How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.
by
Adam Morris
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
December 14, 2020
The Nativist Tradition
Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.
by
Joel Suarez
via
Dissent
on
July 6, 2020
How Nativism Went Mainstream
Three decades ago, California was the launchpad for a virulent strain of anti-immigrant politics that soon spread nationwide.
by
Daniel Denvir
via
Jacobin
on
February 1, 2020
Lewis Levin Wasn't Cool
The first Jewish member of Congress was a virulent nativist and anti-immigration troll who ended his life in an insane asylum.
by
Zachary M. Schrag
via
Tablet
on
October 22, 2018
Oregon’s Racist Past
Until the mid-20th century, Oregon was perhaps the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.
by
Linda Gordon
via
Longreads
on
July 12, 2018
The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right
The enduring popularity of "The Camp of the Saints" sheds light on nativists' historical opposition to immigration.
by
Sarah Jones
via
The New Republic
on
February 2, 2018
How Do We Explain This National Tragedy? This Trump?
On 400 Years of Tribalism, Genocide, Expulsion, and Imprisonment.
by
T. J. Stiles
via
Literary Hub
on
January 31, 2018
When Dissent Became Treason
100 years ago, war proved to be a godsend for a president with no tolerance for opposition. We would be wise to heed the lesson.
by
Adam Hochschild
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 28, 2017
partner
Don’t Count on the Supreme Court to Stop Trump’s Travel Ban
Chinese exclusion in the 19th century exposes the limits of the justices' power.
by
Katy Long
via
Made By History
on
July 5, 2017
Nativism, Violence, and the Origins of the Paranoid Style
How a lurid 19th-century memoir of sexual abuse produced one of the ugliest features of American politics.
by
Mike Mariani
via
Slate
on
March 22, 2017
Trump's Anti-Immigration Playbook Was Written 100 Years Ago. In Boston.
How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the "undesirables" out and make America great again.
by
Neil Swidey
via
Boston Globe
on
February 9, 2017
Not Who We Are
The U.S. is neither a land of nativists nor a haven for immigrants. Since the founding, the truth has lain somewhere in between.
by
Paul A. Kramer
via
Slate
on
February 3, 2017
We’ve Been Here Before: Historians Annotate and Analyze Immigration Ban's Place in History
Six historians unpack the meaning of President Trump's controversial executive order.
by
Angilee Shah
via
PRI's The World
on
February 1, 2017
200 Years of Immigration Data Put Trump's Ban into Context
In light of President Trump's temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, we take a look at larger immigration trends.
by
Alan M. Kraut
via
STAT
on
January 31, 2017
How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Shaped American Politics
From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt today.
by
Lorraine Boissoneault
via
Smithsonian
on
January 26, 2017
Donald Trump and the Return of the 1920s
We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.
by
Richard Yeselson
via
The Atlantic
on
December 30, 2015
Anti-Syrian Muslim Refugee Rhetoric Mirrors Calls to Reject Jews During Nazi Era
The fears that were conjured by nativists 80 years ago are chillingly similar to what we're hearing today.
by
Lee Fang
via
The Intercept
on
November 18, 2015
What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees on the Eve of World War II
On the eve of World War 2, most Americans opposed granting asylum to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.
by
Ishaan Tharoor
via
Washington Post
on
November 17, 2015
partner
Mutant Capitalism
How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.
by
Quinn Slobodian
via
HNN
on
April 15, 2025
The Method in the Far Right’s Madness
How today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ.
by
Quinn Slobodian
,
Bartolomeo Sala
via
Jacobin
on
April 13, 2025
George W. Bush Lives on in Donald Trump’s Migrant Policies
The “war on terror” led to a sweeping curtailment of immigrants’ rights that swept up green card holders as well as citizens.
by
Branko Marcetic
via
Jacobin
on
March 27, 2025
History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism
Even Trump’s recent assertion that he would use executive action to abolish birthright citizenship has a historical link to the Chinese American experience.
by
Michael Luo
via
The New Yorker
on
January 5, 2025
Making Sense of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.
by
Chad Pearson
via
Jacobin
on
December 22, 2024
Trump Wants to Use the Alien Enemies Act to Deport Immigrants – but the Law is Meant for War Time
The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.
by
Daniel Tichenor
via
The Conversation
on
December 11, 2024
How the Irish Became Everything
Two new books explore the messy complexities of immigration—from the era of Lincoln to Irish New York.
by
Tom Deignan
via
Commonweal
on
November 1, 2024
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