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nativism
nativism in anthropology, social movement that proclaims the return to power of the natives of a colonized area and the resurgence of native culture, along with the decline of the colonizers. The term has also been used to refer to a widespread attitude in a society of a rejection of alien persons ... Read more
Native Americans
Native Americans Indigenous peoples of the American continent.North AmericaNative North Americans are believed to be descended from Asian peoples who crossed via the Bering Strait or the Aleutian Islands around 20,000 bc or earlier. They may be divided into eight distinct cultural and geographic gr... Read more
Native American Church
Native American Church Native American religious group whose beliefs blend fundamentalist Christian elements with pan-Native American moral principles. The movement began among the Kiowa about 1890 and, led by John Wilson (Big Moon), soon spread to other tribes. The sacramental food of the group wa... Read more
South American Natives
South American Natives aboriginal peoples of South America. In the land mass extending from the Isthmus of Panama to Tierra del Fuego, Native American civilizations developed long before the coming of the European. It is estimated that about 30 million Native Americans lived in South America at the... Read more
Middle American Natives
Middle American Natives aboriginal peoples living in the area between present-day United States and South America. Although most of Mexico is geographically considered part of North America and although there have been cultural contacts between Mexican groups and the Pueblo of the SW United States,... Read more
Native American languages
Native American languages languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent. have become extinct, but many of them are still in use to... Read more
North American Native art
North American Native art diverse traditional arts of Native North Americans. In recent years Native American arts have become commodities collected and marketed by nonindigenous Americans and Europeans. Originally, these objects were produced in different cultural contexts and for altogether diffe... Read more
North American Natives
North American Natives peoples who occupied North America before the arrival of the Europeans in the 15th cent. They have long been known as Indians because of the belief prevalent at the time of Columbus that the Americas were the outer reaches of the Indies (i.e., the East Indies). Most scholars ... Read more
Native Americans, U.S. Military Relations with

Gall , c.1840-1894, war chief of the Sioux, b. South Dakota. He refused to accept the treaty of 1868 (by which he would have been confined to a reservation), joined Sitting Bull and other dissident chiefs, and was the chief military lieutenant of Sitting Bull in the great defeat of George A... Read more

Iroquoian
Iroquoian , branch of Native North American languages belonging to the Hokan-Siouan linguistic family, or stock, of North and Central America. See Native American languages . ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Nativism"

Nativism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Nativism Nativism is a recurring social and political movement characterized principally...supposed foreigners. While the attitudes and dynamics that distinguish nativism have developed and continue to develop in many countries, the term...
nativism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition nativism in anthropology, social movement that...rejection of alien persons or culture. Nativism occurs within almost all areas of nonindustrial...One of the earliest careful studies of nativism was that of James Mooney (1896), who...
Nativist Movement
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Nativist Movement. Nativism, the fear and hatred of aliens, particularly...Catholics, Jews, Russians, and Slavs, nativism gained strength, particularly during...had 500,000 members nationwide. Nativism declined in the Progressive Era , but...
Determinism, Genetic
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...genetic determinism is an extreme form of nativism that emphasizes the innateness of knowledge. Historically, nativism has been contrasted with empiricism...for experience to write upon. Modern nativism did not emerge until Charles Darwin...
Know‐Nothing Party
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...subsequently disbanded, and organized nativism subsided for a time. See also Antebellum...A Study of the Origins of American Nativism , 1938. Jean H. Baker , Ambivalent...in Maryland , 1977. Tyler Abinder , Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings...
Anti‐Catholic Movement
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...x2010;Catholic agenda. Reflecting economic conditions, nativism waxed and waned during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...John Higham , Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism , 1860–1925, 1955, rpt. 1965. Lawrence J...
Know-Nothing movement
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...The increasing rate of immigration in the 1840s encouraged nativism. In Eastern cities where Roman Catholic immigrants especially...slavery issue was temporarily quieted by the Compromise of 1850 nativism again came to the fore. Many secret orders grew up, of which...
Historic Preservation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...colonial sites at Jamestown and Williamsburg. As industrialization and immigration transformed America, filiopietism and nativism prompted further preservation efforts by native‐born Anglo Americans. In 1904, the Fairbanks family acquired...
Philadelphia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Bartram, John and William ; Colonial Era ; Constitutional Convention of 1787 ; Early Republic, Era of the ; Mott, Lucretia ; Nativism ; Revolution and Constitution, Era of ; Society of Friends ; Wanamaker, John ; World's Fairs and Expositions . Bibliography...
Scandinavian Americans
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...farmland to form virtual colonies. Here, assimilation was slow, even after the conformist pressures associated with World War I nativism, and ethnic foods, festivals, and furnishings survived into the twenty‐first century. In 1990, more than 10...

Dictionary entries related to "Nativism"

Nativism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History NATIVISM NATIVISM, the fear and loathing of and hostility toward immigrants or other...continent. Though technically it refers to a person's place of birth, nativism is not simply xenophobia; it may be (and has been) directed toward...
nativism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology nativism In sociological contexts, this term is used most commonly to refer to the negative, ethnocentric...classic study of such responses is John Higham , Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism 1860–1925 (1955) .
Know-Nothing Party
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...organized as the political expression of nativism, hostility directed against German and...immigrated heavily in the 1840s and 1850s. Nativism first impacted politics in the form of...abolitionists and Free Soilers denounced nativism as a form of bigotry and as a distraction...
American Party
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...percent of the vote. BIBLIOGRAPHY Anbinder, Tyler G. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics...also American Independent Party ; Know-Nothing Party ; Nativism ; and vol. 9: American Party Platform .
Assassinations and Political Violence, Other
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Prior to the Philadelphia Riot of 1844, a clash sparked by nativism and anti-Catholicism resulting in fourteen deaths and fifty...intimidate and instill fear. In Kentucky on 6 August 1855, nativism was again the source of violence when a group of German immigrants...
Mafia Incident
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1937). Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860 – 1925. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988. Pierce Butler / a. r. See also Crime, Organized ; Nativism .
Creek War
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1813 by a visit from the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, who preached nativism, anti-Americanism, and resistance to further encroachments...Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. Nunez, Theron A., Jr. "Creek Nativism and the Creek War of 1813 – 14." Ethnohistory 5...
Philadelphia Riots
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1800 – 1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism. New York: Rinehart, 1938. Feldberg, Michael. The Philadelphia...Billington / a. r. See also Anti-Catholicism ; Catholicism ; Nativism ; Philadelphia ; Riots, Urban .
Ursuline Convent, Burning of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1800 – 1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism. New York: Rinehart, 1952. The original edition was published...also Anti-Catholicism ; Catholicism ; Know-Nothing Party ; Nativism ; United Americans, Order of .
Immigration
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...for the first eight years after 1990, the rate was only 3.6. Such baseless fears about immigration — called "nativism" since the mid-nineteenth century — have often been present in America. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries...

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"An unprecedented influx": Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada.
Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 12/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...2] The first clear episode of nativism--the emphatic rejection of immigrants...the Canadian experience coincided with nativism in the United States, a more widely...political-party formation. Canada's nativism may even have matched America's in...
Black republican tradition, nativism and populist politics in South Africa.
Magazine article from: Transformation; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...decolonisation, we encounter rhetorics in which 'nativism' in one form or another is evident...My key argument is that dismissing nativism as fake philosophy and as anti-racist...phenomenon. Parry (1994:77) noted that nativism is a reverse discourse with its own agency...
The new nativism.(Forward Observer: Politics meets economics)
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...strong. All are examples of the New Nativism, a reaction to globalization that shuts...each of whom had begun life anew," nativism has flared off and on since the Alien...revived nativist sentiment briefly. Now nativism is back. Why? In her 1998 book, The...
Nativism in America: Yesterday and Today
Newspaper article from: La Prensa San Diego; 5/30/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...racial stereotypes, evoke the term nativism, a peculiarly American phenomenon with a long, sordid history. "Nativism as a habit of mind illuminates darkly...radicals who criticized the government. Nativism struck again in the early 1800s with...
Face the nation: Race, immigration, and the rise of nativism in late twentieth century America
Magazine article from: The International Migration Review; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late Twentieth Century America1 This article examines the rise of nativism directed at Asian and Latino immigrants...this study reveals that a racial nativism has arisen which intertwines a new...
Nativism and immigration; regulating the American dream.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 465 words ; 1593321937 Nativism and immigration; regulating the American...boundaries, meanings and effects of nativism in America, beginning by tracking the...sometimes conflicting definitions of nativism by scholars and policy-makers. He...
Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States
Magazine article from: Ethnic Studies Review; 4/30/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...identifying the themes that have nurtured nativism historically. Some important relationships...Nazi Germany and contemporary American nativism. In each chapter, variants of these...fact, the two concepts, racism and nativism, become synonymous as one dredges through...
Racial nativism goes against our traditions.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 2/12/2008; 700+ words ; ...dynamic goes under the rise of racial nativism. This is the idea that the true custodians...interlopers or black sell-outs. Racial nativism goes against the long traditions of racial...government (what can be called racial nativism) is a negative and destructive one that...
Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism, by Mehrzad Boroujerdi. New York...s central thesis is that a form of nativism, or an "admixture of anti-Westernization...in Iran. Before the 1979 revolution, nativism played a formative role in the "social...
Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory...catalyst from which to examine the forces of nativism and ethnicity as they relate to German...events generated a backlash laced with nativism and xenophobia based upon assumptions...