{"id":149064,"date":"2021-10-04T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=149064"},"modified":"2021-10-04T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:13:36","slug":"white-borders-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/04\/white-borders-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Searing indictment of U.S. immigration policies in new book by UH<\/abbr> professor"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Immigration laws in the U.S. have historically been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white America, according to White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall<\/em><\/a> (Beacon Press), a new book by University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Professor Reece Jones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

White Borders<\/em> connects the past to the present, detailing racist anti-immigration policies ranging from the border wall to the Muslim ban. The book documents ties between anti-immigrant hate groups and the Trump administration, which repackaged white supremacist theories of white genocide and “the great replacement” as mainstream political ideas.<\/p>\n

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“I wrote this book after becoming alarmed by the anti-immigrant turn in American politics over the last few years,” said Jones. “As I dug into the archives and traveled the borderlands, I realized that—from the first immigration laws that banned Chinese immigrants to the construction of the border wall today—racism had been at the heart of immigration restrictions in the United States.”<\/p>\n

In a starred review, the Library Journal<\/a> called White Borders<\/em>, “A highly recommended, in-depth history of migration that accounts for lives affected by American border policing and immigration restrictions.”<\/p>\n

The Chicago Review of Books<\/a> said, “Reece Jones explores the tragic, ludicrous, and endlessly violent creation and maintenance of America\u2019s borders…Jones\u2019s greatest contribution is to show the forces that really drove the Trump campaign.”<\/p>\n

Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and chair of the Department of Geography and Environment<\/a> in the College of Social Sciences<\/a>. He is the author of three other books: the award-winning Violent Borders<\/em> (2016) and Border Walls<\/em> (2012), as well as the forthcoming Nobody is Protected<\/em> (2022). He also serves as the editor-in-chief of Geopolitics<\/em>, a peer-reviewed journal covering global politics, human geography and international political economy.<\/p>\n

This work is an example of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of Excellence in Research: Advancing the Research and Creative Work Enterprise<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the 2015–25 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White Borders tackles the long history of racial exclusion in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[301,38,1467,1363,158,1026,9],"class_list":["post-149064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-geography","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-manoa-research","tag-publication","tag-social-science","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149074,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149064\/revisions\/149074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}