Race, Immigration, and Contested Americanness: Black Nativism and the American Labor Movement, 1880-1930

Abstract

This article explores what is sometimes called Black Nativism: African American antipathy to immigrants between 1870 and 1930. It notes how several African American leaders of the 1920s and the New Deal era soon cultivated a more solidaristic posture toward immigrants and working-class members of ethnic groups.