Collision of Capitalism and Democracy, The
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the contradiction between the growing labor needs of a rapidly expanding capitalistic society and a legal and political system which placed strict limitations on the degree ...
Subject: citizenship
Transcript: capacities to participate. But they at the same time, had this very narrow vision Of who could participate in terms in citizenship. So on the one hand, you
Immigration Following World War I (Part Two)
Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about the restrictive attitude in the United States towards immigration following World War I. Professor Gerstle explains that it was caused in part by fear that immigrants would take the jobs of native-born A...
Subject: citizenship
Naturalization Law of 1790, The
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the nation's first naturalization law (1790), which stipulated that only "free white persons" could be fully participating citizens.
Subject: citizenship
Transcript: , How natural it seemed to them, that whiteness should be one Of the prerequisites for citizenship because they argued About whether catholics could, They
Chinese Exclusion Act, The
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson traces the evolution of negative attitudes towards Chinese immigrants in the United States, culminating with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Subject: citizenship
Transcript: has excluded them From citizenship so they are occupying a very peculiar legal Niche in the united states. They're aliens ineligible for citizenship