A New History of Immigration by Jaclyn Backhaus

Author:Jaclyn Backhaus [Backhaus, Jaclyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2022-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

WHAT’S THAT WORD?

Nativism is an ideology or policy that believes that native-born or established inhabitants of a country are more important than immigrants.

When Irish immigrants arrived, they were met with scorn from the British settlers and their descendants, who carried their old prejudices with them across the sea. In order to deal with the prejudices they felt as newcomers, the Irish did what the Germans did. Many early Irish refugees settled in communities that were predominantly Irish. Irish communities sprouted up in areas with denser populations, like the larger East Coast cities of Boston and New York. There, they formed communities inside neighborhoods and tenements, buildings that were often overcrowded and under resourced.

Anti-Irish sentiment and propaganda rippled through the United States, much of it promoted by the Know-Nothing Party and other nativists. As a tight-knit group, new Irish Americans wanted to keep their families and communities together, but they also yearned for agency and legitimacy. They yearned for power. And in a country that is built upon a framework based in white supremacy, that meant that they leaned into their whiteness, in very specific ways.

In northern cities, new patrols were being created, modeled after slave patrols in the South. Slave patrols were groups of hired men who would enforce laws of slavery by capturing and torturing enslaved people who were attempting to run toward freedom.

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