It's the Brian Marishow on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Now we continue our WNYC

Centennial series, 100 years of 100 things. We're up to thing number 27, 100 years of immigration law.

This is obviously very relevant to the election since Donald Trump and other Republicans are

running on an anti-immigration platform more than anything else. And it's very central to a

hundred year series because 1924 was the year of an era-defining immigration shutdown law

that today's political debate has eerie echoes of at exactly a century later.

So let's look to the past, the present, and the future, as we do in these segments.

Our guest today is Madeline Shoe, Professor of History,

and Director of the Center for Global Migration Studies at the University of Maryland.

Among other things, she's got a great timeline that she uses in her teaching that will get to.

I also want to mention some books that she's got. She is editor of the two-volume Cambridge History of Global Migrations,

which just came out last year. And she wrote the book, A Nation of Immigrants, Reconsidered

U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924 to 1965. And we're going to be talking about that a lot in this segment.

She's got, as I started to say, a great timeline that she uses in her teaching at

immigrationhistory.org slash lesson plan, if you want to follow along at home.

Immigrationhistory.org slash lesson dash plan. If you want to follow along at home. Immigrationhistory.org slash lesson dash plan. If you want to follow it,

follow along at home, but not in your car. Professor Shue, thanks for letting us informally

audit your class and audit your brain. Welcome to WNYC. Thank you so much for this chance to

talk about immigration. As you said, it is very timely.

Before we even get to the official start of the centennial timeline with the landmark 1924 Immigration Act,

would you establish some prehistory? You note in your syllabus that the very earliest U.S.

immigration law has established criteria based on race,

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