Xenophobia 
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SOURCE: Public Books
6/15/2022
America Runs on Xenophobia
by Erika Lee
Xenophobia's resilience and revival in America is happening because it helps manage the faults and contradictions of major social institutions including capitalism, democracy, and global leadership.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/16/2021
Politicians, not Migrants, are Fueling the Pandemic's Resurgence
by Randa Tawil
At the height of colonialism, European governments rejected calls for quarantine to keep global commerce humming, and blamed supposedly unsanitary local populations for the inevitable spread of cholera. Governors in some US states are repeating this mistake today.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/8/2020
Americans Are The Dangerous, Disease-Carrying Foreigners Now
by Erika Lee
For centuries, we have been the ones demonizing foreigners as carriers of infectious disease. And we have been the ones banning immigrants in the name of protecting Americans’ public health.
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SOURCE: CNN
4/26/2020
Trump's Outrageous Suggestion Comes with a Dark History
by Jennifer Le Zotte and Jacob Steere-Williams
This is not the first time that disinfectants appeared at the center of a health crisis or as part of a politicized resistance to sound medical advice.
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SOURCE: Erie News Now
3/12/2020
What Historians Heard When Trump Warned of a 'Foreign Virus’
For immigration historians and other scholars, the way US President Donald Trump is describing the coronavirus pandemic has a familiar ring.
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SOURCE: Undark
2/17/20
Coronavirus spurs prejudice. History suggests that’s no surprise.
As anti-Asian sentiment surges amid the growing coronavirus crisis, experts point to history & warn of consequences.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/30/20
The real danger of coronavirus
by Jessica Hauger
Chinese and Chinese American people have served as scapegoats for infectious disease outbreaks and sanitation failures in the United States and around the world to particularly alarming effect.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/26/19
Trump’s xenophobia is an American tradition — but it doesn’t have to be
by Erika Lee
Some have always pushed to keep out immigrants, but people have always fought back, too.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/29/19
Why anti-immigration politics hurt white workers
by Inés Valdez
No, immigrants aren’t taking your job — but vilifying immigrants helps undermine worker protection.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/15/2019
Behind Trump’s ‘go back’ demand: A long history of rejecting ‘different’ Americans
From that drive to encourage blacks to go back where they came from to waves of nativist attacks on Catholics, Jews, Asians and Hispanics in nearly every generation that followed, “go home” rhetoric is as American as immigration itself.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
4-21-18
End of the American dream? The dark history of 'America first'
by Sarah Churchwell
When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history – a sign of what was to follow in his presidency.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-16-17
‘Trump, Trump, Trump!’ How a President’s Name Became a Racial Jeer
According to several scholars of American history, the invocation of a president’s name as a jaw-jutting declaration of exclusion, rather than inclusion, appears to be unprecedented.
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11-29-17
Trump’s Demonization of Muslims Echoes a Dark Chapter in German History
by Richard E. Frankel
His tweeting of anti-Muslim videos could very well have real-world consequences.
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3-26-17
What’s Going on in Hungary Is Alarming
by Karl Pfeifer
Once again the country has been taken over by a xenophobic, anti-Semitic party that sees conspiracies everywhere.
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SOURCE: Toronto Star
9-24-16
Poland wrestles with its past — and present
Xenophobia appears to be rising in Poland. A historian argues a history of unaddressed anti-Semitism is partly to blame.
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7-31-16
The Striking Parallels between Trump’s Xenophobia and the Americanization Movement of the 1910s
by Tina Irvine
Both rest on squalid claims about immigrants.
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1-31-16
Fear of Outsiders Is an American Tradition
by Guenter B. Risse
Dehumanizing the victims as disease carriers makes it easier to discriminate against them.
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11-30-15
It Can’t Happen Here?
by Ron Briley
The sad, depressing American history of xenophobia and repression during times of crisis.
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SOURCE: In These Times
11-23-15
When America Was Overcome with Anti-Japanese Xenophobia During WWII, One Union Fought Back
by Peter Cole
That union was the International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), an amalgam of communists, socialists and radicals.
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SOURCE: Reason
11-17-15
This Isn't America's First Freakout Over Refugees
by Jesse Walker
Before anyone was afraid of ISIS terrorists disguised as Syrian refugees, Americans were afraid of Nazi agents disguised as Jewish refugees.
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