Citizenship Today
Author: Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780870031847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForeword, Jessica T. Mathews.
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Civics for Today
Author: Steven C. Wolfson
Publisher:
Published: 2001-02-22
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781567656176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo provide middle and high school students of mixed ability with a basic civics text stressing citizen participation in civic life, how government at all levels works, and how the economy operates in the world today.
Citizenship Today
Author: Martin I A Bulmer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-22
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1135364931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors apply Marshall's dominant conception of citizenship to key areas of social scientific study such as power, income distribution, work and technology, family responsibilities, the environment and the underclass. The book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in sociological theory, social inequality, social policy and political theory.
Citizenship Reimagined
Author: Allan Colbern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-22
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 110884104X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStates have historically led in rights expansion for marginalized populations and remain leaders today on the rights of undocumented immigrants.
The Practice of Citizenship
Author: Derrick R. Spires
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2019-02-08
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0812295773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does. In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitution and the founding of the Free African Society by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, and ending in 1861, with the onset of the Civil War. Between these two points he recovers understudied figures such as William J. Wilson, whose 1859 "Afric-American Picture Gallery" appeared in seven installments in The Anglo-African Magazine, and the physician, abolitionist, and essayist James McCune Smith. He places texts such as the proceedings of black state conventions alongside considerations of canonical figures such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Frederick Douglass. Reading black print culture as a space where citizenship was both theorized and practiced, Spires reveals the degree to which concepts of black citizenship emerged through a highly creative and diverse community of letters, not easily reducible to representative figures or genres. From petitions to Congress to Frances Harper's parlor fiction, black writers framed citizenship both explicitly and implicitly, the book demonstrates, not simply as a response to white supremacy but as a matter of course in the shaping of their own communities and in meeting their own political, social, and cultural needs.
Representation and Citizenship
Author: Richard Marback
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0814342477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe audience for this book includes, but is not limited to, students and scholars in citizenship studies, history, law, political science, and social science, especially those interested in issues of patriotism and multiculturalism.
Collins Citizenship Today – Edexcel GCSE Citizenship Student’s Book 4th edition
Author: Jenny Wales
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2021-11-12
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0008481903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExam Board: Edexcel Level & Subject: GCSE Citizenship Studies First teaching: September 2016 First exams: June 2018 Endorsed by Edexcel
The Road to Citizenship
Author: Sofya Aptekar
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2015-03-18
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0813575443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged an oath of allegiance to the United States, gaining the right to vote, serve on juries, and hold political office; access to certain jobs; and the legal rights of full citizens. In The Road to Citizenship, Sofya Aptekar analyzes what the process of becoming a citizen means for these newly minted Americans and what it means for the United States as a whole. Examining the evolution of the discursive role of immigrants in American society from potential traitors to morally superior “supercitizens,” Aptekar’s in-depth research uncovers considerable contradictions with the way naturalization works today. Census data reveal that citizenship is distributed in ways that increasingly exacerbate existing class and racial inequalities, at the same time that immigrants’ own understandings of naturalization defy accepted stories we tell about assimilation, citizenship, and becoming American. Aptekar contends that debates about immigration must be broadened beyond the current focus on borders and documentation to include larger questions about the definition of citizenship. Aptekar’s work brings into sharp relief key questions about the overall system: does the current naturalization process accurately reflect our priorities as a nation and reflect the values we wish to instill in new residents and citizens? Should barriers to full membership in the American polity be lowered? What are the implications of keeping the process the same or changing it? Using archival research, interviews, analysis of census and survey data, and participant observation of citizenship ceremonies, The Road to Citizenship demonstrates the ways in which naturalization itself reflects the larger operations of social cohesion and democracy in America.
American Indian Identity
Author: Se-ah-dom Edmo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-05-09
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1440831475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis single-volume book contends that reshaping the paradigm of American Indian identity, blood quantum, and racial distinctions can positively impact the future of the Indian community within America and America itself. This academic compendium examines the complexities associated with Indian identity in North America, including the various social, political, and legal issues impacting Indian expression in different periods; the European influence on how self-governing tribal communities define the rights of citizenship within their own communities; and the effect of Indian mascots, Thanksgiving, and other cultural appropriations taking place within American society on the Indian community. The book looks at and proposes solutions to the controversies surrounding the Indian tribal nations and their people. The authors—all leading advocates of Indian progress—argue that tribal governments and communities should reconsider the notion of what comprises Indian identity, and in doing so, they compare and contrast how indigenous people around the world define themselves and their communities. Chapters address complex questions under the discourse of Indian law, history, philosophy, education, political science, anthropology, art, psychology, and civil rights. Topics covered in depth include blood quantum, racial distinctions, First Nations, and tribal citizenship.
Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship
Author: Sigal R. Ben-Porath
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012-11-29
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0812207483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship, scholars from a wide range of disciplines reflect on the transformation of the world away from the absolute sovereignty of independent nation-states and on the proliferation of varieties of plural citizenship. The emergence of possible new forms of allegiance and their effect on citizens and on political processes underlie the essays in this volume. The essays reflect widespread acceptance that we cannot grasp either the empirical realities or the important normative issues today by focusing only on sovereign states and their actions, interests, and aspirations. All the contributors accept that we need to take into account a great variety of globalizing forces, but they draw very different conclusions about those realities. For some, the challenges to the sovereignty of nation-states are on the whole to be regretted and resisted. These transformations are seen as endangering both state capacity and state willingness to promote stability and security internationally. Moreover, they worry that declining senses of national solidarity may lead to cutbacks in the social support systems many states provide to all those who reside legally within their national borders. Others view the system of sovereign nation-states as the aspiration of a particular historical epoch that always involved substantial problems and that is now appropriately giving way to new, more globally beneficial forms of political association. Some contributors to this volume display little sympathy for the claims on behalf of sovereign states, though they are just as wary of emerging forms of cosmopolitanism, which may perpetuate older practices of economic exploitation, displacement of indigenous communities, and military technologies of domination. Collectively, the contributors to this volume require us to rethink deeply entrenched assumptions about what varieties of sovereignty and citizenship are politically possible and desirable today, and they provide illuminating insights into the alternative directions we might choose to pursue.
