Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values at heart beneath the layers of culture. In this moment of great peril for migrants and refugees in the United States, Borstelmann vividly recovers a necessary history of the place of the "foreigner" in the American imagination. Tracing the ways in which Americans came to understand the world around them in their own exceptionalist image, Just Like Us brilliantly illustrates how growing sentiments of inclusion and equity emerged against persisting racism and xenophobic fears of subversion to shape the American past and present.