{"product_id":"racist-by-design-two-centuries-of-u-s-immigration-control-9781324117094","title":"Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRacist by Design\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning historian Kelly Lytle Hernández reveals how generations of lawmakers and law enforcers built the American immigration system to encourage white immigrants while targeting nonwhite migrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal. The goal, often explicitly stated by the system's architects, was to create a permanent caste of undocumented and criminalized workers to provide cheap labor for the American economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany Americans' understanding of the immigration system begins with the Chinese Exclusion Act of the late nineteenth century. Lytle Hernández expands that history by a full century, showing how the Haitian Revolution of the 1790s inspired not only America's first immigration bans (to prevent news of a free Black republic from reaching our shores) but also its first refugee resettlement program (to welcome and support Haiti's evicted enslavers.) She explains how Chinese Exclusion led the Supreme Court to disconnect immigration laws from the constitution. She reveals how eugenicists and Jim Crow segregationists built much of our current immigration regime as expressly \"whites-only,\" and shows how during the Civil Rights Movement, Congress amended this system but never abolished it, leaving many of the regime's racist rules and rituals intact today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLytle Hernández calls \u003cem\u003eRacist by Design\u003c\/em\u003e \"an act of sabotage,\" a book that will expose the blueprints of the system, so it can be dismantled. A nuanced, concise, and brilliant work that will outrage and inflame readers, \u003cem\u003eRacist by Design\u003c\/em\u003e is a major work by one of our most important historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324117094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kelly Lytle Hern\u0026#195;\u0026#161;ndez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52873279865013,"sku":"9781324117094","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/racist-by-design-two-centuries-of-u-s-immigration-control-9781324117094","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}