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Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
12017-07-12T13:03:29-07:00Christine Andersonc77a53254a311e84e59d25f85fa3d7df41e0d37f102752vistag2017-07-12T13:12:36-07:00Christine Andersonc77a53254a311e84e59d25f85fa3d7df41e0d37fPrejudice against immigrants has been a recurring theme in American history. The prejudice against Germans, Italians, and Irish immigrants revealed in these sources may be difficult to understand today. The Irish and Italians seemed recognizably "different" to some white, Protestant Americans who feared that the country would change as numbers of these Catholic groups entered the country. Prejudice against Germans intensified during the Great War (World War I) in part because of United States government propaganda such as the poster here. The poem "Unguarded Gates" speaks to a more general fear of cultural change.
Contrast these sources to the positive view of immigrants in the discussion topic "Ethnic American Identities."
1media/shoes ps.jpg2016-08-19T04:36:50-07:00Christine Andersonc77a53254a311e84e59d25f85fa3d7df41e0d37fUnguarded Gates, 18956Thomas Bailey Aldrichimage_header2017-07-12T13:22:19-07:00Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. “Unguarded Gates.” The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. http://archive.org/details/cu31924014309938.Christine Andersonc77a53254a311e84e59d25f85fa3d7df41e0d37f
12016-09-02T10:56:17-07:00Christine Andersonc77a53254a311e84e59d25f85fa3d7df41e0d37fThe Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin3Why would this 1917 Army Recruitment Poster motivate Americans to enlist? What kinds of stereotypes does the poster draw on? What might be the consequences of stereotyping a specific group of citizens?media/kaiser the beast of berlin.jpgplain2017-07-12T13:16:15-07:00Cosgrove, Ben. “World War I Posters: The Graphic Art of Propaganda.” Time, October 25, 2014. http://time.com/3881351/world-war-i-posters-the-graphic-art-of-propaganda/.Library of CongressChristine Andersonc77a53254a311e84e59d25f85fa3d7df41e0d37f
1media/shoes ps.jpg2016-08-19T03:52:47-07:00Christine Andersonc77a53254a311e84e59d25f85fa3d7df41e0d37f"Paddywhacked" by James Mulvaney, Irish Echo 20023What Words Meanimage_header2016-09-19T11:18:04-07:00“Paddywhacked by a New York Times ‘paddy Wagon’ — Irish Echo.” Accessed July 29, 2016. http://irishecho.com/2015/02/paddywhacked-by-a-new-york-times-paddy-wagon/.Christine Andersonc77a53254a311e84e59d25f85fa3d7df41e0d37f
