Several factors account for the obsession with race in the 1890s, including which of the following?
A) Progressive reformers became aware of discrimination and oppression of minority groups.
B) The supposedly “scientific” nature of racial categories was largely discredited.
C) The “New Immigration” from eastern Europe raised concerns about conferring citizenship on non-Anglos.
D) Non-whites had come to make up more than 50 percent of the American population.
Answer: C
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