You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
Amanda Frost, "You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers"
English | ISBN: 080705142X | 2021 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 080705142X | 2021 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize
Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk—even for those born on US soil.
Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and deny civil rights to all considered “un-American”—whether due to their race, ethnicity, marriage partner, or beliefs. Drawing on the narratives of those who have struggled to be treated as full members of “We the People,” law professor Amanda Frost exposes a hidden history of discrimination and xenophobia that continues to this day.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of Black citizenship in
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