Reece Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a professor in and the chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai'i. He has researched immigration for over 20 years and is the author of Border Walls and Violent Borders, over 2 dozen journal articles, and 4 edited books. He is editor in chief of the journal Geopolitics and lives in Honolulu with his family. Connect with him on Twitter at @ReeceJonesUH.
“A highly recommended, in-depth history of migration that accounts
for the lives affected by American border policing and immigration
restrictions.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review
“The author’s ability to connect the dots is impressive—and
depressing, since the politics of ethnic hatred persist.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Reece Jones explores the tragic, ludicrous, and endlessly violent
creation and maintenance of America’s borders . . . Jones’s
greatest contribution is to show the forces that really drove the
Trump campaign.”
—Chicago Review of Books
“White Borders is a searing indictment of the US immigration
restrictions from Chinese Exclusion through the Trump presidency.
This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that while
immigration crackdowns are justified as protecting jobs and
workers, they’ve always been about saving and protecting the racist
idea of a white America.”
—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from
the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist
“With eloquent prose and masterful storytelling, Reece Jones
narrates the hard history of immigration policies of the US settler
colonial state that was founded and rooted in white supremacy, from
Chinese exclusion to the border wall.”
—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of
the United States
“Reece Jones’s White Borders is a damning inquiry into the history
of the border as a place where race is created and racism honed
into a razor-sharp ideology. Deeply researched and movingly
written, White Borders is an indispensable book.”
—Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the
Myth
“Reece Jones guides us through the long, tangled, and still
developing history of how the United States came to know itself as
a nation through the increasingly strict control of movement across
its borders. Jones demonstrates in this assiduously researched and
carefully crafted book that the nation’s borders are in fact
central to making the state what it is: a key tool in the
maintenance not just of white supremacy but of whiteness
itself.”
—Brendan O’Connor, author of Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels
the Right
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