A review by garberdog
Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity by Paul Spickard

4.0

Excellent critical history of immigration, racial formation, and colonization in the territory that would become the United States. While at times Spickard felt too jingoistic and apologetic for white supremacy, nativism, settler colonialism, and imperialism, this book does a very good job deconstructing the major myths surrounding the history of how the US came to look like it does today. A good supplement to this text is A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.