Citizenship and the American state
Exploring the Boundaries of Legal Racial Exclusion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2949820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D N Obinna (0000-0002-1915-8786, College of Liberal Arts, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 110-122 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504630.2024.2344542 |
| OpenAlex | W4395047727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
Providing a compelling analysis of race, ethnicity, and culture, this manuscript unpacks the whiteness as citizenship model in the American context. This paper argues that citizenship rights have historically been dispensed to mean ‘whiteness’. That is, whiteness has been the definition of the ‘real American’ where racialized others are kept outside of the full rights and privileges of citizenship. Examining instances where individuals challenged whiteness in court, this manuscript deciphers how whiteness as a social classification excluded certain peoples based on their ‘racial fitness’ while including others as exemplary members. Likewise, this work also examines how territorial expansion altered notions of whiteness – especially in regard to Mexican Americans. Drawing reference to concepts such as the ‘Pocahontas Exception’, this work also examines how the whiteness as citizenship model allowed certain individuals with Native American ancestry to identify as ‘white’ while using the ‘one-drop rule’ to deem persons with African ancestry as ‘black’ thereby relegating them to second-class citizenship. As such, this manuscript argues that whiteness is endemic to the American democracy. Its connection is sealed through citizenship not only through the rights it grants but in the standing it confers
Citizenship · Democracy · Ethnic group · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White supremacy · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society
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American Apartheid
What Blood Won't Tell
Whiteness as Property
Performing Whiteness
More Than Freedom
American While Black
White On Arrival
Defending the Master Race
White Scourge
Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience
Black Reconstruction in America
Warring” Ideals
The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien
The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
Theorizing Migration Policy
Beyond “White by Law”
A race so different’
The Last Stand
Defining America’s Racial Boundaries
Immigration and the American Century
Rethinking Racism
Transformation of Citizenship
Categorically Unequal
The Politics of Black Citizenship
Citizenship and the American state
Whiteness of a Different Color
The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans
A Sense of Place
Ethnicity, reception and the growth of American immigration
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |