citizenship

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• SOURCE: KJZZ
  2/7/2023
  

  Professor Discusses the Hidden History of Passports

  Patrick Bixby's work examines the cultural history of the passport and how documents secure the freedom to travel. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/17/2022
  

  SCOTUS Declines to Hear Challenge to Citizenship Law Disadvantaging American Samoans

  Residents of US territories are able to receive birthright citizenship if an act of Congress grants it to them. While Congress's refusal to do so for residents of American Samoa has clear racist roots, the Court declined to hear a case challenging this exclusion. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/3/2022
  

  The Reconstruction Amendments and the Basis of American Abortion Rights

  by Peggy Cooper Davis

  When the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were debated, concerns about the protection of both public rights of citizenship and private, intimate rights of individuals were front and center. There is, notwithstanding Samuel Alito's opinion, a long tradition of constitutional respect for privacy.

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  9/20/2021
  

  What is Citizenship? A Conversation with Mae Ngai on The Takeaway

  The Takeaway speaks with historian Mae Ngai about how notions of U.S. citizenship have changed over time.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/4/2021
  

  Allegiance, Birthright and Race in America

  by William Darity, Jr. and Charles Ali Bey

  The Thirteenth Amendment demonstrated that a person could be both a citizen and a slave (via conviction). What, then, was the citizenship status of the enslaved in America, and what does that tell us about the debates over birthright citizenship and reparations today? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/3/2020
  

  The Trump Administration Just Made the Citizenship Test Harder. How Would You Do?

  Can you ace the new test for becoming a naturalized US Citizen? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  128 Tricky Questions That Could Stand Between You and U.S. Citizenship

  Irish Immigrant Maeve Higgins looks at the expanded civics test for naturalization, and gives it a failing grade--unless its purpose is to reduce immigration. 

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• 8/30/2020
  

  Constitutional Textualism and Congressional Debate Over the 14th Amendment

  by Alan J. Singer

  Supreme Court decisions based on text without context have been responsible for some of the greatest perversions of justice in United States history, mostly around denying the scope of authority the 14th Amendment grants to the government to enforce civil equality.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  8/18/2020
  

  Trump Said Two Years Ago That He Would Deny Citizenship to Americans Like Kamala Harris

  In 2018, the president called birthright citizenship “ridiculous” and vowed to stop it by executive order.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/14/2020
  

  Birtherism 2.0

  by Matthew Yglesias

  Right-wing challenges to Kamala Harris's eligibility for the presidency depend on a legal argument that American-born children of immigrants are a lesser category of citizen. There is no basis under the Constitution for this. 

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Of Course Kamala Harris is a Citizen

  by Derek Litvak

  John Eastman's claims that Kamala Harris is not a natural-born U.S. citizen fly in the face of 14th Amendment jurisprudence and Eastman's own prior defenses of Ted Cruz's eligibility for the presidency. 

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Citizenship, the 14th Amendment, and Trump’s War on Undocumented Immigrants

  by Alan J. Singer

  Recent attacks on Kamala Harris's citizenship and eligibility to serve as Vice President depend on willful misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment and ignorance of the specific racist injustices it was written to prevent. 

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• 8/13/2020
  

  The Right Questions Kamala Harris's Citizenship, Eligibility to Be Vice President

  A Newsweek op ed argues that because Kamala Harris's parents were not US citizens at the time she was born in Oakland, CA, that she does not qualify as a "natural born" citizen. Historians respond. 

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• 7/5/2020
  

  "It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield": Charles Sumner and the Fight for Equal Naturalization Rights

  by Lucy Salyer

  Senator Charles Sumner lost his battle on the Fourth of July 1870, with dire consequences for both Asian immigrant communities and the prospects of a more racially egalitarian America. 

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• SOURCE: American Civil War Museum
  3/30/2020
  

  15th Turns 150!

  The presence of new citizens in the form of formerly enslaved people forced Congress to consider what citizenship and voting actually meant. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/30/2020
  

  Responsibility and Civility: The Unwritten Essentials

  by Mary Lindemann

  Critical to the prospering of any academic group are the unwritten expectations that underlie and ground its workings. When they’re observed, organizations prosper; when they’re disregarded, things go terribly wrong.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/2020
  

  Counting Everyone—Citizens and Non-Citizens—In the 2020 Census is Crucial

  by Brendan A. Shanahan

  Even without a citizenship question, the Trump administration wants to shape how states reapportion their legislatures.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/17/19
  

  Citizenship Day Used to Be Called 'I Am an American Day.' Here's How It Came to Be—and Why It Changed

  Long before Citizenship Day was made official, there was “I Am An American Day.” Its initial conception was a sign of its times, and its evolution has been significant too.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/17/19
  

  The History of Citizenship Day Is a Reminder That Being an American Has Always Been Complicated

  by S. Deborah Kang

  “We welcome you,” Truman declared, “not to a narrow nationalism but to a great community based on a set of universal ideals.”

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• 9/1/19
  

  Restricting Automatic Citizenship to Children Born to Americans Serving Abroad Is Only the Latest Effort by Trump to Dismantle Birthright Citizenship

  by Derek Litvak

  Trump and conservatives are attempting a wholesale constitutional revolution by dismantling birthright citizenship. Here's why birthright citizenship is so historically important.