American Indians, civilized performance and the question of rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852458 |
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| Authors | Lucy Maddox (0000-0003-0875-087X, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-326 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14775700030013004 |
| OpenAlex | W2011333007 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Between the middle of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, public arguments about the eligibility of American Indians for citizenship, and about the obligations of white Americans toward Indian populations, shifted from a focus on the rights of the Indian minority to a focus on the rights of the white majority. Similarly, discussions of the criteria for Indian citizenship also shifted, from a concern with the moral duty of the majority to ensure the human rights of the minority to a consideration of whether any claims to rights must be respected on moral grounds alone. The writings of Lydia Maria Child and Lyman Abbott on the 'Indian question' illustrate the ways in which Child's paternalistic family model of entitlement is replaced by a later model that emphasizes culture over morality, behavior over rights
Citizenship · Duty · Morality · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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