America Classifies the Immigrants

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America Classifies the Immigrants is written by Joel Perlmann and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674986202 (ISBN 10) and 9780674986206 (ISBN 13).

Joel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about racial, national, and ethnic difference have been. His focus ranges from the 1897 List of Races and Peoples, through changes in the civil rights era, to proposals for reform of the 2020 Census.