[Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate for 2016
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 20 22:35:20 UTC 2016
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
> More than few, I'd say, although perhaps someone with a more detailed =
> knowledge of the history of restrictive immigration laws and policies =
> (including those barring/restricting entry to those of her own Sikh =
> ethnicity) might chime in usefully. I believe she also missed the =
> Japanese internment episode, which certainly relates to race, ethnicity, =
> and immigration.
>
And, of course, there were slavery, the black codes, and Jim Crow.
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-Wilson
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