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Birthright Citizens
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Martha S. Jones
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.
Birthright Citizens
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Martha S. Jones
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story o
Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship
Language: en
Pages: 75
Authors: Leo R. Chavez
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-10 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of i
How Race Is Made in America
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Natalia Molina
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican AmericansÑfrom 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many
Birthright Citizenship in the United States
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Garrett Manning
Categories: Children of foreign workers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05 - Publisher:

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The first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Citizenship Clause, provides that [a]ll persons born or naturalized in the U