On Hate

#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus

“Not Welcome” stencil created by an Eritrean refugee. Source: BBC

The **#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus** is a sixteen-part series of readings and tools to support education, research, and action to dissect and dismantle the U.S. immigration detention system. The syllabus is organized by theme and curated by historian [Tina Shull](https://medium.com/u/6e34ba3479d9) at [Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)](http://endisolation.org).

Part Thirteen, “On Hate,” provides readings, reports, and multimedia resources for understanding and tracking the history and influence of nativism, white supremacy, and racial hatred in shaping restrictionist immigration policy, “Trumpism,” and anti-immigrant narratives in media and public discourse.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1300-im-migration-in-the-trump-era

Readings

Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. Oxford University Press, 1992; “Nativism and Prejudice Against Immigrants: An Historiographic Assessment,” in A Companion to American Immigration*. *Blackwell, 2006.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflection on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso, 1983.
Arnold, Kathleen R., ed. Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2011.
Bayoumi, Moustafa, excerpt fromHow Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab In America*, NY Magazine, *2008.
Bennett, David H. The Party of Fear: The American Far Right from Nativism to the Militia Movement. Vintage, 1990.
Brader, Ted, Nicholas A. Valentino, and Elizabeth Suhay. “What Triggers Public Opposition to Immigration? Anxiety, Group Cues, and Immigration Threat.” *American Journal of Political Science *52 (2008): 959–78.
Fernandez, Deepa, “U.S. Immigration Policy and Racism: How White Supremacists are Writing Immigration Policy and Democrats are Asleep at the Wheel,” in Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration. Seven Stories Press, 2007.
Iftikhar, Arsalan, excerpt from Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms, Truthout, 2016.

The New Nativism by Robin Dale Jacobson

- Jacobson, Robin Dale. [*The New Nativism: Prop 187 and the Debate over Immigration*](https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-new-nativism). University of Minnesota Press, 2008. - Kinder, Donald and Cindy Kam. “Strangers in the Land,” in [*Us against them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion*](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo8273958.html)*. *The University of Chicago Press, 2010. - Knobel, Dale T. [*America for the Americans: The Nativist Movement in the United States*](https://books.google.com/books/about/America_for_the_Americans.html?id=Uxh1AAAAMAAJ)*. *Twayne Publishers, 1996. - Kumar, Deepa. [*Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire*](https://books.google.com/books?id=IAa2rGX44ocC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false). Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012. - Lee, Erika “[A History Lesson for Donald Trump](http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/erika-lee-immigration-history-lesson-donald-trump-article-1.2329495),” *New York Daily News,* 2015. - Lopez, Ian Haney, [*Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class*](http://www.powells.com/partner/37407/biblio/9780190229252?p_isbn). Oxford University Press, 2014. - Park, Lisa Sun-Hee and David Naguib Pellow. [*The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden*](http://aspenjournalism.org/2011/08/18/exploring-environmental-privilege-in-aspen/). New York University Press, 2011.