“Beginning in 1882, the United States stopped being a nation of immigrants that welcomed foreigners without restrictions, borders or gates. Instead, it became a gatekeeping nation,” said Professor Erika Lee of the University of Minnesota, an expert on the Chinese Exclusion Act. … In the process, the very definition of what it meant to be an ‘American’ became even more exclusionary,” she continued.

XREF: Connects to broader histories of American exclusionary policy and shifting national identity definitions.

XREF: Connects to immigration history and the politics of American national identity.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 746