[PDF.24ho] Struggles over Immigrants' Language: Literacy Tests in the United States, 1917-1966 (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)

Struggles over Immigrants' Language: Literacy Tests in the United States, 1917-1966 (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)

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 | #7004649 in Books |  2012-03-15 | Original language:English |  8.50 x5.75 x.75l,.85 | File type: PDF | 182 pages

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||About the Author|Young-In Oh teaches America history, Modern Western History, and Race and Ethnicity in America at universities in Korea. She received her Ph. D. in 2008. She worked for the Research Center for Migration Culture in 2009-2010 and is serving on the

Oh argues that the introduction of literacy tests influenced both the possibility of immigrant admission to the United States and the exercise of suffrage. The Literacy Test Act of 1917 was the first national language restriction on immigration and was used as a means of excluding undesirable linguistic minorities. Focusing on New York State, Oh shows how literacy tests were used to preserve the political hegemony. She argues that linguistic assimilation carried differen...

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