Enacted by U.S. Congress; approved May 26, 1924 Excerpt published in United States Statutes at Large, 68th Cong., Sess. I, Chp. 190 An act to limit the migration of aliens into the United States "The annual quota of any nationality shall be 2...

Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island. . United States 1924 The National Origins Act, sometimes referred to as the Johnson-Reed Act, represented the culmination of early twentieth-century...

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JAPANESE PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act. By Izumi Horibe. Stanford (California): Stanford University Press. 2001. xiii, 327 pp. (Illustrations.) US $49.50. cloth. ISBN 0-8047-3813-0. It is unusual to write about people and movements that are...

JAPANESE PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE: MODIFYING THE EXCLUSION CLAUSE OF THE 1924 IMMIGRATION ACT By Izumi Hirobe. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, 327 pp., $49.50.) In Japanese Pride, American Prejudice, Izumi Hirobe has written an impressive study of U.S.-Japanese relations during the...