<description>&lt;p class= "has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size"&gt; One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category “Asiatic.”&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Reverb Effect

University of Michigan Department of History

Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924

APR 4, 202424 MIN
Reverb Effect

Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924

APR 4, 202424 MIN

Description

One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category “Asiatic.”