Peter Schrag, for many years the editorial page editor and later a weekly columnist for the Sacramento Bee, currently contributes to The Nation, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of several books, including Paradise Lost and California: America's High-Stakes Experiment (both from UC Press) and Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools. Peter Schrag is the 2010 winner of the Carey McWilliams Award from the California Studies Association.

• Contents Sources and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A City upon a Hill 2. "This Visible Act of Ingurgitation" 3. "Science" Makes Its Case 4. Preserving the Race 5. The Great Awhitening 6. "They Keep Coming" 7. A Border without Lines Epilogue Notes Index

"A fine history of nativist movements and the reasons why their rhetoric has been so seductive at particular points in history." Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2) "An exquisite rendition of America's long history of immigration and anti-immigrant backlashes." San Francisco Chronicle "Astutely teases out perennial contradictions." Boston Globe "This is a remarkably compact survey ... Not Fit for Our Society is an important addition, even on a crowded bookshelf." -- Dorothee Schneider The Historian "Tells the story of xenophobia in a fresh way and reminds us of how multifaceted it has been." Contemporary Sociology "With an easy, direct writing style, the author has created a noteworthy intellectual rumination on the nature of anti-immigrant sentiment in the US." Choice "This is a very pleasant book about a very unpleasant subject." Journal Of American History "Lays out a gripping history ... Sets the scene for the new immigration battles about to be staged on Capitol Hill and across the country." -- Ray Suarez Journal Of Democracy

Peter Schrag, for many years the editorial page editor and later a weekly columnist for the Sacramento Bee, currently contributes to The Nation, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of several books, including Paradise Lost and California: America's High-Stakes Experiment (both from UC Press) and Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools. Peter Schrag is the 2010 winner of the Carey McWilliams Award from the California Studies Association.

• Contents Sources and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A City upon a Hill 2. "This Visible Act of Ingurgitation" 3. "Science" Makes Its Case 4. Preserving the Race 5. The Great Awhitening 6. "They Keep Coming" 7. A Border without Lines Epilogue Notes Index

"A fine history of nativist movements and the reasons why their rhetoric has been so seductive at particular points in history." Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2) "An exquisite rendition of America's long history of immigration and anti-immigrant backlashes." San Francisco Chronicle "Astutely teases out perennial contradictions." Boston Globe "This is a remarkably compact survey ... Not Fit for Our Society is an important addition, even on a crowded bookshelf." -- Dorothee Schneider The Historian "Tells the story of xenophobia in a fresh way and reminds us of how multifaceted it has been." Contemporary Sociology "With an easy, direct writing style, the author has created a noteworthy intellectual rumination on the nature of anti-immigrant sentiment in the US." Choice "This is a very pleasant book about a very unpleasant subject." Journal Of American History "Lays out a gripping history ... Sets the scene for the new immigration battles about to be staged on Capitol Hill and across the country." -- Ray Suarez Journal Of Democracy

Peter Schrag, for many years the editorial page editor and later a weekly columnist for the Sacramento Bee, currently contributes to The Nation, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of several books, including Paradise Lost and California: America's High-Stakes Experiment (both from UC Press) and Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools. Peter Schrag is the 2010 winner of the Carey McWilliams Award from the California Studies Association.

• Contents Sources and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A City upon a Hill 2. "This Visible Act of Ingurgitation" 3. "Science" Makes Its Case 4. Preserving the Race 5. The Great Awhitening 6. "They Keep Coming" 7. A Border without Lines Epilogue Notes Index

"A fine history of nativist movements and the reasons why their rhetoric has been so seductive at particular points in history." Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2) "An exquisite rendition of America's long history of immigration and anti-immigrant backlashes." San Francisco Chronicle "Astutely teases out perennial contradictions." Boston Globe "This is a remarkably compact survey ... Not Fit for Our Society is an important addition, even on a crowded bookshelf." -- Dorothee Schneider The Historian "Tells the story of xenophobia in a fresh way and reminds us of how multifaceted it has been." Contemporary Sociology "With an easy, direct writing style, the author has created a noteworthy intellectual rumination on the nature of anti-immigrant sentiment in the US." Choice "This is a very pleasant book about a very unpleasant subject." Journal Of American History "Lays out a gripping history ... Sets the scene for the new immigration battles about to be staged on Capitol Hill and across the country." -- Ray Suarez Journal Of Democracy