U.S. citizenships and American identities: Examining methods of belonging in North America
This historiographical essay examines methods of belonging within two adjacent intellectual fields: formations of American identity and the history of U.S. citizenship. By studying recent monographs from these subfields, this essay underlines how belonging makes visible conceptions of citizenship fo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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History compass
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 10 |
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| Summary: | This historiographical essay examines methods of belonging within two adjacent intellectual fields: formations of American identity and the history of U.S. citizenship. By studying recent monographs from these subfields, this essay underlines how belonging makes visible conceptions of citizenship for minoritized populations who may not have held U.S. citizenship, but whose existence and lives help demonstrate a spectrum of American identities. When centering belonging, historians can trouble a chronicle of U.S. citizenship that is interpreted as solely a legal status to an analytic that informs and is informed by one's race, sexuality, marital status, class, and individual actions. In doing so, this paper will illuminate how everyday people practiced shaped, remodeled, and created American imagined communities and therein, citizenries, through their methods of belonging. |
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12749 |