Karen M Tani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3089524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen M Tani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Tani |
| SIGNATURE | TANI K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7988-7672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Comment by Karen M. Tani
After 504
No abstract available
Compensation, Commodification, and Disablement
A Review of Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. by Nate Holdren
Constitutionalization as Statecraft
This essay showcases the contribution of Risa Goluboff's Vagrant Nation (2016) to one field of scholarship that the book scarcely mentions: the historical literature on the American state. In Goluboff's account of the fall of the “vagrancy law regime” in the “long 1960s” I see vital questions about the nature of the modern American state and the endurance of older, seemingly antithetical modes of governance. Given the trends that state-focused sc…
Clio and the Compound Republic
Although Martha Derthick has received most recognition for her contributions to political science and government, we argue that her astute accounts of federalism in action offer precisely what historians of American governance need at this moment. This essay highlights several of her contributions: her insistence on seeing the United States as a “compound republic” comprised of multiple levels of authority rather than equating government with the…
From the Well-Regulated Society to the Modern American State
It is a privilege to be a part of this roundtable on William Novak’s The People’s Welfare. In developing my own research agenda, no piece of scholarship was as important to me as The People’s Welfare, and no one has been more warm and welcoming to me than Novak as I have entered the territory that he, very shortly, will revise anew. This comment focuses on the importance of The People’s Welfare to historians studying the twentieth-century version…
Federalism Anew
One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused on individual actions and local circumstances, but quickly expanded to a broader set of injustices. Brown died just days before he was scheduled to start college, a significant accomplishment in his local context. His school di…
States of Dependency
Who bears responsibility for the poor, and who may exercise the power that comes with that responsibility? Amid the Great Depression, American reformers answered this question in new ways, with profound effects on long-standing practices of governance and entrenched understandings of citizenship. States of Dependency traces New Deal welfare programs over the span of four decades, asking what happened as money, expertise and ideas travelled from a…
States' Rights, Welfare Rights, and the “Indian Problem”
“What distinguishes the American Indians from other native groups is . . . the nature of their relationship with a government which, while protecting their welfare and their rights, is committed to the principles of tribal self-government and the legal equality of races.” Felix S. Cohen, Chairman, Board of Appeals, United States Department of Interior (1942) “[T]he objective of Congress is to make the Indians self-supporting and into good individ…
Flemming v. Nestor
Ephram (Fedya) Nestor, a Bulgarian-born immigrant to the United States, was “an unusual person,” according to his second wife Barbara. She met him in 1933 when he was selling vegetables from his car and remembers not really liking him. “He stayed too long,” he “talked too much,” and worst of all to this devoted radical, he “passionately espoused the cause of Communism [but] he didn't know too much about it.” Interviewed when she was ninety, sharp…
Federalism Anew
One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused on individual actions and local circumstances, but quickly expanded to a broader set of injustices. Brown died just days before he was scheduled to start college, a significant accomplishment in his local context. His school di…
States' Rights, Welfare Rights, and the “Indian Problem”
“What distinguishes the American Indians from other native groups is . . . the nature of their relationship with a government which, while protecting their welfare and their rights, is committed to the principles of tribal self-government and the legal equality of races.” Felix S. Cohen, Chairman, Board of Appeals, United States Department of Interior (1942) “[T]he objective of Congress is to make the Indians self-supporting and into good individ…
Flemming v. Nestor
Ephram (Fedya) Nestor, a Bulgarian-born immigrant to the United States, was “an unusual person,” according to his second wife Barbara. She met him in 1933 when he was selling vegetables from his car and remembers not really liking him. “He stayed too long,” he “talked too much,” and worst of all to this devoted radical, he “passionately espoused the cause of Communism [but] he didn't know too much about it.” Interviewed when she was ninety, sharp…
Flemming v. Nestor
Ephram (Fedya) Nestor, a Bulgarian-born immigrant to the United States, was “an unusual person,” according to his second wife Barbara. She met him in 1933 when he was selling vegetables from his car and remembers not really liking him. “He stayed too long,” he “talked too much,” and worst of all to this devoted radical, he “passionately espoused the cause of Communism [but] he didn't know too much about it.” Interviewed when she was ninety, sharp…
States' Rights, Welfare Rights, and the “Indian Problem”
“What distinguishes the American Indians from other native groups is . . . the nature of their relationship with a government which, while protecting their welfare and their rights, is committed to the principles of tribal self-government and the legal equality of races.” Felix S. Cohen, Chairman, Board of Appeals, United States Department of Interior (1942) “[T]he objective of Congress is to make the Indians self-supporting and into good individ…
States of Dependency
Who bears responsibility for the poor, and who may exercise the power that comes with that responsibility? Amid the Great Depression, American reformers answered this question in new ways, with profound effects on long-standing practices of governance and entrenched understandings of citizenship. States of Dependency traces New Deal welfare programs over the span of four decades, asking what happened as money, expertise and ideas travelled from a…
Federalism Anew
One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused on individual actions and local circumstances, but quickly expanded to a broader set of injustices. Brown died just days before he was scheduled to start college, a significant accomplishment in his local context. His school di…
Clio and the Compound Republic
Although Martha Derthick has received most recognition for her contributions to political science and government, we argue that her astute accounts of federalism in action offer precisely what historians of American governance need at this moment. This essay highlights several of her contributions: her insistence on seeing the United States as a “compound republic” comprised of multiple levels of authority rather than equating government with the…
From the Well-Regulated Society to the Modern American State
It is a privilege to be a part of this roundtable on William Novak’s The People’s Welfare. In developing my own research agenda, no piece of scholarship was as important to me as The People’s Welfare, and no one has been more warm and welcoming to me than Novak as I have entered the territory that he, very shortly, will revise anew. This comment focuses on the importance of The People’s Welfare to historians studying the twentieth-century version…
Constitutionalization as Statecraft
This essay showcases the contribution of Risa Goluboff's Vagrant Nation (2016) to one field of scholarship that the book scarcely mentions: the historical literature on the American state. In Goluboff's account of the fall of the “vagrancy law regime” in the “long 1960s” I see vital questions about the nature of the modern American state and the endurance of older, seemingly antithetical modes of governance. Given the trends that state-focused sc…
Compensation, Commodification, and Disablement
A Review of Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. by Nate Holdren
After 504
No abstract available
Comment by Karen M. Tani
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · American History and Culture (5 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Citizenship (3 works)