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David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martn. Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas.

David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martn. Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist... 984 Reviews of Books The technical problem May has to confront in a book at the history of race and immigration in the United that places Lincoln and Douglas at the center of a hemi- States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina in- sphere-wide problem is that neither Lincoln nor Doug- dividually (with an appendix briefly looking at 16 more las, when they faced each other, actually spent much countries). time on the expansion question. And a little more often The authors’ main point concerns the coexistence of then he should, May resorts to suggesting that Lincoln democracy and racism; the more democratic a country, “surely envisioned the Gulf-Caribbean” as “Douglas’s they note, the more racist its immigration controls. script” (p. 110), or that silence on annexation “hardly “Simply put, democratic input—whether in its liberal or implied disinterest” (p. 192). But May justly links Doug- populist variations—historically has been linked to racist las with enthusiasm for the filibustering expeditions of immigration policy in the Americas” (p. 2). At first the 1850s under Narciso Lo ´pez in Cuba and William glance, the main theme seems Myrdalian in relation to Walker in Nicaragua. And he adds at the end of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Historical Review Oxford University Press

David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martn. Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas.

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The American Historical Review , Volume 120 (3) – Jun 1, 2015
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10.1093/ahr/120.3.984
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984 Reviews of Books The technical problem May has to confront in a book at the history of race and immigration in the United that places Lincoln and Douglas at the center of a hemi- States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina in- sphere-wide problem is that neither Lincoln nor Doug- dividually (with an appendix briefly looking at 16 more las, when they faced each other, actually spent much countries). time on the expansion question. And a little more often The authors’ main point concerns the coexistence of then he should, May resorts to suggesting that Lincoln democracy and racism; the more democratic a country, “surely envisioned the Gulf-Caribbean” as “Douglas’s they note, the more racist its immigration controls. script” (p. 110), or that silence on annexation “hardly “Simply put, democratic input—whether in its liberal or implied disinterest” (p. 192). But May justly links Doug- populist variations—historically has been linked to racist las with enthusiasm for the filibustering expeditions of immigration policy in the Americas” (p. 2). At first the 1850s under Narciso Lo ´pez in Cuba and William glance, the main theme seems Myrdalian in relation to Walker in Nicaragua. And he adds at the end of the

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