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Explores the lives of five Americans who agitated for greater freedom in America, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and W.E.B. Du Bois.
"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. …
"The declaration of equal rights arguably created the modern political community. But this act of empowering individuals caused the disempowering of the political community. Exposing this, Menke opens up a new way of understanding rights that no longer involves the disempowering…
"The declaration of equal rights arguably created the modern political community. But this act of empowering individuals caused the disempowering of the political community. Exposing this, Menke opens up a new way of understanding rights that no longer involves the disempowering…
In An Example for All the Land, Kate Masur offers the first major study of Washington during Reconstruction in over fifty years. Masur's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress, and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique …
Ingenious citizenship : appropriating the liberal citizenship script -- Migrant domestic workers, hidden tactics, and appropriating political citizenship -- Global sex workers, calculated abjection, and appropriating economic citizenship -- Trans people, morphing technologies, a…
"In this examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, Ema…