Race, class, and immigration are intertwined, utterly inseparable. Unlike the largely European immigrants of previous generations, most of today’s immigrants hail from Asia and Latin America, the direct result of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. Arguably the least-known yet most significant piece of legislation that changed the racial makeup of the country, the law was signed a year after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and less than three months after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The timeline is significant; without the racial consciousness ushered in by black Americans and their
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