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.