It’s little recalled today, but from its inception in the Alien and Sedition Acts, Nativism has sought to alter the legal terms of citizenship. Throughout the 19th century, states attempted to ...

There may be new things under the sun, but the recent rise of nativism in the United States is not one of them. The political forces attempting to reduce, revoke, or reject citizenship – and ...

The United States in the 1830s was a time of nativism and deepening anti-Catholic resentment. The country was experiencing a massive influx of Irish immigrants, almost all of whom were Catholic.

But often their stances are motivated by plain nativism, and a territorial possessiveness that prevents their cities from addressing larger concerns. I heard this connection between nativism ...

But no one could have foreseen the breadth and fury of the new nativism that has risen up from Middle America with an ominous roar. The prairie-fire spread of anti-Hispanic “Americanism” makes ...

It’s not that nativism is increasing; it’s that fewer businesses demand low-skilled immigrants. The Republicans’ anti-immigration stance might make sense if nativism was on the rise.

But the U.S. will have a sensible and workable immigration system only when it reckons with and uproots its recurring, now 100-year-old problem of nativism. Robert Polner of New York City and ...

Why the Klan's sudden interest in education policy? First and foremost, because of the KKK's virulent nativism and anti-Catholicism. Most private schools at the time were associated with the ...