Introduction: Discourses on Race, Sex, and African American Citizenship

Chateauvert, Melinda

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“…Irving (2007) claims that the United States government defines citizenship as the protection provided to individuals because they are born in the country, born outside the country to a citizen or are naturalized, but most importantly owes allegiance to the United States (p.69). Chateauvert (2008b) poses a question of what exactly citizenship is, the rights and obligations that accompany citizenship, and claims that the simplest definition of citizenship has to do with one's relationship with a legal state or entity (p.149). Chambers (2013) points out that although citizenship from the perspective of rights and obligations of individuals may be definitive, it may not be fulfilling.…”

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Educational Attainment, Citizenship, and Black American Women in Elected and Appointed National Leadership Positions

Kaba

2017

The Review of Black Political Economy

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This article examines the issue of American citizenship and how it is related to Black Americans, especially from the perspectives of educational attainment and national political leadership positions (focusing on the U.S. Senate, office of governor, and the U.S. Supreme Court). The article presents seven interrelated conceptual or theoretical perspectives of American citizenship (Three Citizenships; Gender; Equality; Race; Belonging; Military Service; and Protestant Christianity), and where Black Americans (especially Black women) fit in them. The article claims that while Black American women have made substantial progress in college degree attainment, they have done so at a very high financial cost. The article claims that compared with other groups in the society, the gains in educational attainment made by Black American women have not resulted in them being elected or selected to these national leadership positions. Among the factors presented for this exclusion of Black women are: lack of strong support from Black American male leaders and institutional support; ambition; first occupy public office within the states of the Union; they must become moderate politicians; perception that Black women have more privileges in the society than Black men and other groups; and negative media portrayal of Black female candidates. The article claims that despite being one of the oldest and most native groups in the United States, with over nine out of every 10 of them being native-born citizens, Black American women in particular tend to have the characteristics of non-citizens.

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Educational Attainment, Citizenship, and Black American Women in Elected and Appointed National Leadership Positions

Kaba

2017

The Review of Black Political Economy

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"All Men Are Entitled to Justice By the Government": Black Workers, Citizenship, Letter Writing, and the World War I State

Taillon

2014

Journal of Social History

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Reflections on History, Education, and Social Theories

Franklin

2011

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Historians need social theories to conduct their research whether they are acknowledged or not. Positivist social theories underpinned the professionalization of the writing of history as well as the establishment of the social sciences as “disciplines,” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. August Comte's “science of society” and theories of evolution were attractive to U.S. historians and other researchers dealing with rapid social and economic changes taking place under the banner of American and Western “progress.” Progressive and “pragmatic” approaches were taken in dealing with the social wreckage created by the expanding industrialization, increasing urbanization, and huge influx of southern and eastern European immigrants. In addition, social theories and philosophical trends also served as the ideological underpinning for historians writing about the “white man's burden” that was said to have brought European and American “civilization” to the indigenous peoples in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the islands of the Pacific who came to be dominated by military might with collaboration from local elites.

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Introduction: Discourses on Race, Sex, and African American Citizenship

Cited by 4 publications

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Educational Attainment, Citizenship, and Black American Women in Elected and Appointed National Leadership Positions

Educational Attainment, Citizenship, and Black American Women in Elected and Appointed National Leadership Positions

"All Men Are Entitled to Justice By the Government": Black Workers, Citizenship, Letter Writing, and the World War I State

Reflections on History, Education, and Social Theories

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