...ghettos." These newcomers adopted the language, wore the clothes, stole the name of the Nordic American, "and they are beginning to take his women, but they...seldom adopt his religion or understand his ideals." The day of the "Great Race" that had built the United States, he lamented, was coming to a close.10...

...Race (1916), and claimed that immigrants 'adopt the language of the native American [that is the white American], they wear his clothes, they steal his name...take his women, but they seldom adopt his religion or his ideals' (Horowitz et al 1990: 11). This kind of racism had been used against the Native Americans...

...being "literally driven off the streets" by "swarms" of immigrants — primarily Polish Jews — who "adopt the language of the native American; they wear...but they seldom adopt his religion or understand his ideals."92 In assessing the traits and the relative merits of the European races, Grant sketched out...

...of Polish Jews," he warns. Revealingly, the argument rapidly equates assimilation as sexual threat: "These immigrants adopt the language of the native...his name; and they are beginning to take his women" (81). This invocation of seduction by an impure race suggests the close interaction of nationalist...

...Mediterranean, and Jewish immigrants posed a serious threat to the United States' Nordic "old stock." "The man of the old stock is being crowded out of...his name and they are beginning to take his women." Unless the trend were reversed, the melting pot would swallow up the higher race in "a population of...

...hard they might try. Speaking of the influx of Polish Jews in New York City, Grant (1921: 91) said, "These immigrants adopt the language of the native...adopt his religion or understand his ideals," and they elbow the white Anglo-Saxon American out of his home. Similarly, the eugenics movement of that...