Birthright citizens
A history of race and rights in antebellum America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6524890 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martha S Jones (0000-0001-7111-6017) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 248 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Birthright citizens (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781316577165 |
| ISBN | 9781316577165 |
| Open Library | OL26967209M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 74 |
| References cited | 101 |
Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and Black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. Jones explains, no single case defined their status. Former slaves studied law, secured allies, and conducted themselves like citizens, establishing their status through local, everyday claims. All along they argued that birth guaranteed their rights. With fresh archival sources and an ambitious reframing of constitutional law-making before the Civil War, Jones shows how the Fourteenth Amendment constitutionalized the birthright principle, and Black Americans' aspirations were realized. Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans"--Provided by the publisher
African Americans · Citizenship · Civil rights · Law and legislation · Legal status · Race discrimination · 19th century · African americans · Bürger · Bürgerrecht · History · law and legislation · Legal status, laws · Legal status, laws, etc · Rassendiskriminierung · Schwarze · Staatsangehörigkeit · united states
THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF BLACK CITIZENSHIP
Moral Contagion
Rights in Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic, and Pan-African Thought
Introduction to Volume IV
Black American Colonization in the Brazilian Amazon
The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans
Introduction
A Right to Ourselves
Africans and Immigrants
On Plantation Politics
“Why Sit Ye Here and Die”? Counterhegemonic Histories of the Black Female Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century America
“We Chilluns, Long wid Her, Wuz Lak de Udder Slaves”
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture
He says that before I should have my children he will blow their brains out”
Ius soli under siege
Declaration in Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom
The Founding, Constitutional Imperfection, and the Future of the American Experiment
White identity politics
Ampliando los significados de Sevicia
A purer form of government”
From Polity to Exchange
This is almost like Ruby Bridges’
Social Capital, Civic Labor, and State Capacity in the Early American Republic
Popular Constitutionalism in the US Empire
Reframing Black Southerners’ Experiences in the Courts, 1865–1950
This Land Was Made for
Free Black Witnesses in the Antebellum Upper South
Response to Rebecca Scott's “Discerning a Dignitary Offense”
Back into the Days of Slavery”
Sources and U. S. Citizenship in the Antebellum United States
Creating Law through Regulating Intimacy
The Reasonable (Wo)man”
I Could Not Come in Unless over their Dead Bodies”
This Spirit of Persecution Was the Cause of Our Convention”
Look Well Before You Leap”
Look Well Before You Leap”
This Spirit of Persecution Was the Cause of Our Convention”
Le bonheur en Amérique, des Lumières aux dystopies
Africans and Immigrants
Criminalizing free Black migrants in antebellum North Carolina
“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19 th century
The Trials and Consolations of Migrant-Serving Faith-Based Organizations
Droit et esclavages
Imperial Incarceration
To Agitate a Southern Audience
Kinlessness and the (Idea of the) Slave Narrative Tradition
Runaway Slaves in Antebellum Baltimore
The Shifting Sands of Citizenship
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism
The Many Histories of Juvenile Justice
Unequal institutions in the longue durée
Black Soldiers, Public Memory, and the Recuperative Work of Historical Fiction in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “Esteve, the Soldier Boy”
Migration and ‘Intimate Citizenship’
The Constitutional Foundations of White Supremacy
An African School for African Americans
Unquestioned Citizenship”
New Citizenship Studies
Market Nation
Race, Affirmative Action, Antidiscrimination, and the Roberts Court
Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785–1868
Congressional Representation by Petition
Deployments of Multiracial Masculinity and Anti-Black Violence
The Last Democratic Election
Lifting the veil on Mary McLeod Bethune's contribution to American historiography
Wong Kim Ark 's children
The Apostle of Struggle
Constitution-As-Commons
All Manner of Cruelty and Slavery
The difference of colour
Good American citizens
The Materiality of Belonging
Latin America in the Antebellum Black Press
Dehumanizing Slave Personhood
The History and Progress of Black Citizenship
Counting Americans
The Amiable Baltimoreans
Arming Slaves
Democracy and the Foreigner
Born Losers
Serving Two Masters
Beyond Black and White
Church Property Disputes, Religious Freedom, and the Ordeal of African Methodists in Antebellum St. Louis
Songs of Zion
The Republic Afloat
The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm
The American South and the Atlantic World
A Fragile Freedom
In the Shadow of Slavery
Colored Travelers
A Gentleman of Color
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Somewhat More Independent
Whenever They Judge it Expedient”
A transnational vision for African colonization
Pretty Boring Stuff
Lawyers and the Legal Business of the Cherokee Republic in Courts of the United States, 1829–1835
A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment
Where is night soil? Thoughts on an urban privy
Rehearsal for War
Democracy Rising
America's Greatest Criminal Barracks”
The Right to Stay Put, Revisited
Roger B. Taney and the Slavery Issue
"The Constitution of Aspiration and "The Rights That Belong to Us All
The Outskirts of Our Happiness
Caribbean Crossing
Slave Country
Freedom's Journal
Citizen Sailors
Neither Fugitive nor Free
The Role of the Professional Slave Trader in a Slave Economy
Great Britain, the United States, and the Negro Seamen Acts, 1822-1848
Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850
Becoming African in America
Carry Me Back
On Agency
The Public Law of a County Court; Judicial Government in Eighteenth Century Massachusetts
The Maryland Context of Dred Scott
Holy Rebellion
The people themselves
Constructing Citizens
Lincolnian Natural Right, Dred Scott, and the Jurisprudence of John McLean
The Roots of Early Black Nationalism
From Slaves to Citizens? Tannenbaum and the Debates on Slavery, Emancipation, and Race Relations in Latin America
Paper Thin
Reconstructive Poverty Law Practice
Patronage and Protest in Kate Brown's Washington
The Puritan Roots of Daniel Raymond's Economics
The Early American Public Sphere and the Emergence of a Black Print Counterpublic
Reclaiming Gregoria's Mule
Legal Mobilization for Social Reform
Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging
Woodson and Wesley
American Antislavery Society Agents and the Free Negro, 1833-1838
Creating and Maintaining an Historical Tradition
The Interregional Slave Trade and the Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market
The African Supplement
Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892
| Citations per year | 9.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |