- Published: 5 January 2022
- ISBN: 9780807054062
- Imprint: Beacon Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $49.99
White Borders
The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
- Published: 5 January 2022
- ISBN: 9780807054062
- Imprint: Beacon Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $49.99
“White Borders is a searing indictment of the US immigration restrictions from Chinese Exclusion through the Trump presidency. This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that while immigration crackdowns are justified as protecting jobs and workers, they’ve always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a white America.” —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist “With eloquent prose and masterful storytelling, Reece Jones narrates the hard history of immigration policies of the US settler colonial state that was founded and rooted in white supremacy, from Chinese exclusion to the border wall.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States “Reece Jones’s White Borders is a damning inquiry into the history of the border as a place where race is created and racism honed into a razor-sharp ideology. Deeply researched and movingly written, White Borders is an indispensable book.” —Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth