Martha S. Jones

Birthright Citizens

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Produktbeschreibung

Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781107150348
• ISBN-10: 1107150345
• Artikelnr.: 51153929

Autorenporträt

Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She was formerly a Presidential Bicentennial Professor at the University of Michigan, and was a founding director of the Michigan Law School Program in Race, Law and History. She is the author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (2007) and co-editor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: rights of colored men: debating citizenship in antebellum America
1. Being a native, and free born: race and rights in Baltimore
2. Threats of removal: colonization, emigration, and the borders of belonging
3. Aboard the constitution: black sailors and citizenship at sea
4. The city courthouse: everyday scenes of race and law
5. Between the constitution and the discipline of the church: making congregants citizens
6. By virtue of unjust laws: black laws and the reluctant performance of rights
7. To sue and be sued: courthouse claims and the contours of citizenship
8. Confronting Dred Scott: seeing citizenship from Baltimore city
9. Rehearsals for reconstruction: new citizens in a new era
Epilogue: monuments to men.