The Immigrant Other: How the Nativist mindset fed on fear and resentment

Eliminationism in America, Part 11: New arrivals to U.S. shores were easily 'Otherized' targets of hateful violence, regardless of color--but especially when they were nonwhite

Part 11 of 14: [Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.]

Probably the most vivid—not to mention accurate—portrayal of an American eliminationist hatemonger ever committed to film was delivered by the British actor Daniel Day-Lewis in the 2002 Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York, playing the fictionalized version of a real-life Nativist character name…