This tutorial, of interest to students of race and ethnicity, and American immigration history, will examine the development of American immigration policy as representative of the tension in American society between ideals of cultural pluralism and the desire for homogeneity. While landmark immigration bills will anchor the course chronologically, emphasis will be placed on the analysis of rhetoric found in debates on immigration, in publications produced by anti- and pro-immigration forces, and the sociopolitical circumstances which informed the discourse of exclusion. Thematically, this tutorial seeks to address the following issues: how the idea of an "American" is encoded in American immigration policy; how concerns about race, class,and gender are delineated in immigration laws and writings on exclusion; and how official documents and public debates can be read as texts which contribute to the popular constructions of our perceptions of the nature of American society. The tutorial will begin with a study of American nativism and the development of an organized opposition to immigrants and foreign labor and nativism's relation to American racial thought. Next we will examine the anti-Asian movement, focusing specifically on numerous immigration bills that excluded Asians from the United States. We will then consider the effects of the 1965 Immigration Act, which liberalized American immigration policy by striking down national quotas and helped create our current "multicultural" society. Finally, we will consider how immigration policy is influenced by periods of national crisis and perceived threats to national security. Format: tutorial. Requirements: students will meet with the instructor in pairs for an hour each week. Each student will write and present orally a 5- to 7-page essay every other week on the readings assigned for that week. In alternate weeks, students will be responsible for offering an oral critique of the work of their partner. Evaluation will be based on written work and analyses of their partner's work. No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 10). Open to all. Group A