{"id":48069,"date":"2021-05-04T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=48069"},"modified":"2022-03-17T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T01:39:10","slug":"one-mighty-and-irresistible-tide-the-epic-struggle-over-american-immigration-1924-1965-by-jia-lynn-yang-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-mighty-and-irresistible-tide-the-epic-struggle-over-american-immigration-1924-1965-by-jia-lynn-yang-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924\u20131965 by Jia Lynn Yang [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47074\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/One-Mighty-and-Irresistible-Tide-Jia-Lynn-Yang-BookDragon-531x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/One-Mighty-and-Irresistible-Tide-Jia-Lynn-Yang-BookDragon-531x800.jpg 531w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/One-Mighty-and-Irresistible-Tide-Jia-Lynn-Yang-BookDragon.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nPulitzer Prized&nbsp;<em>NYT&nbsp;<\/em>editor\/journalist Jia Lynn Yang makes history intimately personal: \u201cThis book is an attempt to fuse my family\u2019s history to the history of the country that found a place for us &#8230; I feel duty bound to name and understand those who fought to allow my family into this country in the 1970s, when so many others have been denied, then and now.\u201d That \u201cnow\u201d underscores the immediacy as to why Yang\u2019s stupendous research, essential stories, and<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>contextual insight \u2013 all presented with layman\u2019s clarity \u2013 should be required reading.<\/p>\n<p>Prolific Laural Merlington narrates with careful proficiency, enhanced with appropriate urgency.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Although racist immigration laws began in 1882, few arrivals were turned back before WWI. In 1924, Johnson-Reed Act&nbsp;bill sponsor David Reed gloated, \u201cWe no longer are to be a haven, a refuge for oppressed the whole world over.\u201d The resulting draconian quotas didn\u2019t lift until the Immigration Act of 1965,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>which finally reopened U.S. borders, especially to Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African arrivals \u2013 including Yang\u2019s Chinese\/Taiwanese family.<\/p>\n<p>Challenging the notion of immigration as \u201cfeats of will and strokes of destiny,\u201d Yang methodically exposes the absolute power of politics in who gets to be American.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/One-Mighty-and-Irresistible-Tide-The-Epic-Struggle-over-American-Immigration-1924-1965-\/pid=9737107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, April 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Pulitzer Prized&nbsp;NYT&nbsp;editor\/journalist Jia Lynn Yang makes history intimately personal: \u201cThis book is an attempt to fuse my family\u2019s history to the history of the country that found a place for us &#8230; 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