The course features studies of anti-immigrant politics sponsored by: 1. the Federalist Party (late 18th c); 2. the "Know Nothing" Party (mid-19th c); 3. the Populist Party (late 19th c); 4. the Ku Klux Klan (1920s); 5. the Republican Party (early 21st c).
Outcomes: Students will use historical perspective to deconstruct the rhetoric and analyze the socio-economic and political contexts of past and present nativist political movements.
Outcomes: Students will use historical perspective to deconstruct the rhetoric and analyze the socio-economic and political contexts of past and present nativist political movements.