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Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924
Kristofer Allerfeldt
Book Code: C7854
ISBN: 0-275-97854-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97854-9
248 pages, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2003
List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The book is thoroughly researched, makes strong use of secondary sources, and provides detailed analyses of topics that have not gone unnoticed by scholars of immigration or Pacific Northwest history. In all, Allerfeldt freshly interprets themes that led to immigration restriction in 1921 and 1924. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.
    —Choice     November 2003
  • Kristofer Allerfeldt's book is a welcome piece of research on an under-treated subject....The author offers many valuable pieces of information about the many expressions of concern and hostility directed towards the newer populations.
    —The Journal of American History     December 2004
Description: In 1924 America passed legislation that effectively outlined which immigrants were to be considered beneficial to the national body and which were not. Albert Johnson, a Washington State Congressman, sponsored the Act. This study examines the role of the Pacific Northwest in the change of national sentiment that led up to this legislation. Throughout the period, this region experienced massive growth in its immigrant population. Its forests and small towns were the scenes of many clashes with the "alien" radicals, resulting in the creation of anti-Catholic legislation and the laws against land ownership by the Japanese. Analyzing issues of race, religion, and political radicalism, Allerfeldt determines that the region was highly influential in the national debate. Most immigration studies of this era focus on the East Coast or on California, but Allerfeldt finds that Northwestern politicians and populists, responding to regional events as much as national sentiments, often set the national immigration agenda. Diverse organizations such as the APA, the Ku Klux Klan, and the IWW gained powerful local support and had significant influence on the region's attitudes towards immigrants. Rather than following California's lead in the opposition to Asian immigration, the Northwest actually set the path for its southern neighbor in many important aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Why the Northwest
  • Religion as a Motivation for Immigration Exclusion
  • The Exclusion of Radicals
  • Race and Restriction
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002073466
LCC Class: JV7070
Dewey Class: 325
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