Race-based negative integration has been a continuous element of the American social bond for large sectors of the citizenry since the founding, but … - Jay Bernstein

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Race-based negative integration has been a continuous element of the American social bond for large sectors of the citizenry since the founding, but almost always qualified and repudiated with the reminder that “we” are a nation of immigrants. The join between these two features of the American social bond are arguably the foundational contradiction in the idea of America.