She notes the underlying nationalism in the liberal assertion that accepting pluralism was a thing that the superior societies did, another affirmation of the unique superiority of the United States in world history--the special, chosen, Anglo-Saxon United States. [3] Impossible Subjects was Ngai’s first full-length book, and she has also published a number of works in major newspapers and academic journals. Filipinos faced wage discrimination.“Deportation Policy” provides a look at the laws and actions against illegal aliens in the United States following the passage of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act and how these actions framed illegal aliens as “impossible subjects.” Within this chapter, Ngai discusses some of the moral outrage these new policies inspired. Over a surprisingly long time, these judgments reflected that as far as the law was concerned, eligibility for citizenship was racially based. Objections to these “others” were ostensibly economic in that they allegedly undercut wages for native white labor class, but the real issues were always deeper and more complex. The chapter talks about how the national law that came from this sentiment, known as the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, divided European peoples into differing levels of "whiteness" defined by nationality and based their quotas on that. She also shows how ideas of eugenics and morality were used to justify the deportation of illegal aliens to their homeland. Chapter one gives a detailed description of the context and lead up to the restrictive immigration laws that are subsequently covered in the book.
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Many Filipinos faced Anti-Filipino attacks, and institutionalized disregard for their safety and well-being. This condition was reversed during the Second World War, when the internment of Japanese Americans was arguably the most blatant manifestation of legal racial discrimination since the Jim Crow era. Ngai specifically looks at how immigrants were ranked in terms of social desirability to determine their deportation status, which also highlighted the racial undertones that existed in a political and legal context in the United States. Impossible Subjects, Chapter 4, By Mae M. Ngai Chapter 4 Overview Mae argues that immigration law and policies were central in shaping the modern political economy of the Southwest These immigration policies helped create a racialized, transnational workforce including various