"Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the logic that shaped immigration restriction policies throughout the twentieth century. Jeanne Petit argues that the literacy test debate was about much more than reading ability or the virtues of education. It also tapped into broader concerns about the relationship between gender, sexuality, rac"@en
"The Men and Women We Want examines the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century debate about whether Congress should impose a literacy test to restrict immigrants, especially those from southeastern Europe. Author Jeanne Petit argues that we cannot fully understand the dynamics of these debates unless we see how the participants mobilized ideologies of gender and race to make their case for or against immigration restriction."@en

"The men and women we want gender, race, and the progressive era literacy test debate"@en
"The men and women we want : gender, race, and the progressive era literacy test debate"@en
"The men and women we want : gender, race, and the progressive era literacy test debate"
"The men and women we want : gender, race, and the Progressive Era literacy test debate"
"The Men and Women We Want Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate"@en