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Review of “The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate”
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Amid the Trump administration’s repeated attacks on immigrant communities from Mexicans to Haitians to Somalis, immigrant advocates have often responded with facts to undermine the administration’s claims. They marshal and emphasize data showing immigrants commit crimes at lower rates, contribute economically, and participate civically. Still, anti-immigrant narratives endure, remaining stubbornly resistant to empirical rebuttal. This moment prompts us to think about the purpose of “facts” as a response to racism and how and why immigration debates have become so epistemically fractured. Sunmin Kim’s The Unruly Facts of Race reconstructs the early twentieth-century immigration debate to provide useful historical scaffolding for these contemporary questions.
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