HISTORY 2IS3

HISTORICAL ROOTS OF CURRENT SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CRISES IN THE UNITED STATES

Undergraduate

Fall 2025 · Roots Of Socl&Polit Crises:Usa · C01

Readings

You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping From Dred Scott
Frost · Required
ISBN 9780807051429
Etext American Immigration - Lifetime Access
Gerber, David · Required
ISBN 9780197542446; 9780197542422

Fall 2025 · C01

Forced migration of Indigenous people
Forced migration of enslaved people
Dred Scott and the Citizenship of Enslaved People
Citizenship and the Protections The Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship for formerly enslaved people and the idea of birthright citizenship
The KnowNothings and the long history of Nativism leading to 2025
Food as the marker of the immigrant "other" ("They're Eating the Dogs. They're Eating the Cats")
Chinese Exclusion, Birthright Citizenship and the Case of Wong Kim Ark
Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and "The Right Immigrants"
The Immigration Quota System (1920s-1960s)
Internment and Deportation (WWI and WWII)
The Alien and Sedition Act
Expulsion of Mexican Americans
Post 1965 Patterns of Immigration
The Dreamers
Of Borders and Border Walls
Family Separation at the Border
Student Politics and Immigration Enforcement

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