Week 13 — Immigration, Citizenship, and Belonging Across Groups

Why this matters

A clinic or school-office worker helping families with forms and a public-health analyst reading census data both meet this week's laws and boxes.

In plain language

This chapter asks two questions that run through every group you have studied: who could become a citizen, and how does the government count people? You will follow naturalization (the legal process of becoming a citizen after birth in another country) from a 1790 law open only to white people to a 1952 law that ended the last racial bar. You will compare two newcomers from the course archive and learn two words, nativism (hostility to immigrants in the name of the native-born) and xenophobia (fear or hatred of people seen as foreign). You will also watch the federal categories (the race and ethnicity boxes on government forms) change in 1977, 1997, and 2024.

• Already covered: Week 2's race, ethnicity, and nationality; Week 11's naturalization cases.
• This week: the citizenship line from 1790 to 1952, three immigration laws, and the federal categories.
• How they connect: one citizenship thread runs across five groups.
• Where we're going next: Week 14, Intersections.

Focus

Who could become a citizen, and how have the federal categories changed?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• [ ] trace who could naturalize from the 1790 law to the 1952 law
• [ ] explain why the 1924 quotas were not about Asia alone
• [ ] compare E3 and E5 and the laws behind them
• [ ] read a census box as the issuing body's category, not biology

To-do

Plan your week

1. Read Chapter 13 (about 35–45 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
2. Work the lecture tutorial (60–90 minutes).
3. Try the practice set (15–25 minutes).
4. Do the workshop (about 90 minutes), the discussion, and the assignment, then the quiz.

This week's checkpoint: explain why a census box is a decision, not a discovery.

You've got this

Take it in order, and ask your instructor if a step snags.

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