In this episode Scott continues his look at the turn of the century, and how it parallels today. This is the second installation of this comparison, and traces the theme of immigration from the late 1800's through the early 1920's. Scott builds upon how the scientific ideas of eugenics and determinative heredity informed assessments and social views of the newer wave of Eastern and Southern European immigrants--the same who were entering the US when Emma Lazarus's poem was placed beneath the Statue of Liberty inviting the world to "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"--and gave established white US Americans justification for the demonizing and mistreatment of this newest wave of immigrants. Scott ends the episode drawing comparisons to today's US political climate, in which immigration and deportation are hot-button issues.
Join Scott in looking at history to gain perspective on ourselves by reading along with his primary source text: The History of White People by Princeton Historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter. https://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393339742/ref=sr_1_1?crid=116NYJ5X2AQBH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.KKx9LSZAtPM8GJZuKcbSmHgk_pbzuSwNprvCa6oQlMZ6EFCqHHJKdnOTMSXYdHdnYiPO28UVlYg-Fa2ctDRGeu33xz71lT1bd8kgIP0pqn6rjZJdG-H_r8waHhM12Ari_efDWdulRq3xycPV6iwcoBDiJ-kmkQwOjshtFfd9F-sh3RQFkJnjl9S2nnhWtHNFYc0-jV4foSX92QfFU0CtybwTELNvxo7MLOwVgfJgh5A.x4KCNRgzv-sL6QE1ozMLi6NNTWVZO32-z3qncHRL2qo&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+history+of+white+people&qid=1741476012&sprefix=the+history+of+white+peopl%2Caps%2C219&sr=8-1
